Pricked with the best music, kept, barely slept and drank milk as an antidote. But a night of 99, during a holiday harvest, Fredi Torres went with the music elsewhere on the backs of Cheval Blanc , when I was 22 and a present of Swiss rich kid. 
While closely controlled natural than pressing grapes to make his process, ate bread, cheese, sausage and wine ... after all that was France. The particular experience with one of those wines opened his eyes and showed him a path from which he unwittingly was already carrying. His veins pride Galician farmers who are his family, who enjoy working the land and live in the open, as far away from all the noise toxic than had been his life so far.
Fredi went crazy for wine. Literally. He began to devote all his time and his money. The bride Argentina and the trip to the South were part of the price he paid. He studied enology, toured the world, worked with the best, learned a lot and when he felt it was time, he created his own winery.
Saó of Coster is the dream of the boy. It is based in Gratallops , in a ramshackle house that Fredi half divine being recovered. They live it, its wines and Nini, a kitten on the street who won the heart.
Swiss has 6 partners investing in the environment of the 200,000 euros a year, reinvest their earnings and they know that in ten years, if you do things right, will be enjoying the sweetness of success. Currently produces 15000 bottles in total and not want to spend the 25000. Their wines range from 13 to 80 euros and sells in 15 countries among which is not Spain. Here only enjoy their friends. A pity.
The project appears impeccable. Works primarily with indigenous varieties of the area and your favorite girl is the Carignan . Choose the land both by the specificity of the varieties and its orientation to the point that his "penultimate madness" are Planassos and Canyarets, unmistakable expressions of vineyards face south and north side respectively.
He does not like classifications or labels, so when I ask him how he would define his work said "I have a way to make conscious and responsible." Work the land by mule, with the invaluable Jaume, a tanned complexion pagés somewhat dowser who claims to be breaking and gives evidence of this, having the conversation calm and direct land and knows the animals whisper.
It has a small winery and great charm, especially for a movie lover like me. The walls speak of their passion for film "before". Frtiz Lang, Jacques Tatti and Audrey Hepburn are the guardians of their barrels, which wets twice a day after waxing and waning day. But floating around Reservoir Dogs Tarantino and Sean Connery best, the real James Bond.
This is part of the "preparation" is in a bottle of wine. Soil characteristics, combined with the wisdom of a dowser, the trained strength of the mules, loyalty and experience of vines over 80 years and the push of a young man who is clear about what you are doing and takes forward his air of enfant terrible .
When he returned to Barcelona after a perfect day, the weather changing feature halftime, gave me a rainbow that I saw from beginning to end. And for a moment I was Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz ...
