![]() ![]() At this pub we had a true Catalonian experience with tapas and wine, here right in the middle of southern France. So France and Spain is not as homogenious as it might look like, neither culturally nor ethnically. On the weekend Tinc Set is open for brunch AND dinner, with non-stop service beginning at 12pm until 11pm. It is a wine bar, rotisserie and bottle shop, specializing in tapas, Barcelona-style roasted chicken and Catalan natural wine. It is similar to the Basque people who are also devided by Franch-Spanish border in the North-Eastern Basques in France and the South-Western Basques in Spain. Tinc Set is Almas sister restaurant, located right next door on Avenue Lajoie in the heart of Outremont. Here you really experience the traditional Roussillon (Northern Catalonian in France) lifestyle, while being in a southern French region. Also on the Balearic Islands they do speak Catalan for historic reasons. Champagne is produced in the Champagne region of France and is made. So the Catalonian region is not devided culturally but by the French-Spanish border. Champagne and sparkling wine are wines with the carbonation trapped within the wine itself. Back to the Pub :-) Here at Tinc Set they have great organic wine as well as delicious French food served in a tastas style since Perpignan, although in France, is just located in the northern part of the Catalonian region, ranging from South of Barcelona to North of Perpignan. The walls are full of paintings and it has this artsy flair. Xarel-lo/Parellada 2022 Ramon Jane Tinc Set (May Wine Club). La Salada Tinc Set Ancestral is a sparkling wine produced using the ancestral method, using the native varieties of Macabeu and Xarel.lo. So were we there with our local friends who brought us to this pub. It is a local pub where locals go to for having a good time. In other words, this is a Pt Nat wine (from the French 'Ptillant. Ancestral Method sparkling wine in which there is one single. ![]() A lively Spanish sparkling wine produced by the Mas Cand winery, Tinc Set Ancestral is crafted following the ancestral method. Tinc Set, means, Im Thirsty in the local Catalan dialect50 Xarel-Lo 50 Parellada. It features very nice live music, Irish Folk Music of the Harvesters as we experienced while we were here. Blend of Parellada and Xarello aged for 8 months on its lees. A dry, generous wine with apple, melon, just ripe pear and zesty pink grapefruit acidity bringing it all together.The Le Tinc Set is simply a great pub. This wine is made from white native grapes macabeo & xarello which are two of the grapes also used in Cava ( Spains offering of a wine made in the same way as Champagne) so think of it as a cheeky pet nat cava?! I would recommend buying a bottle of the Baudili still wine with this as it was used as the base wine for this pet nat and would be a great little experiment to taste both side by side. Fermentation occurs instainless steel deposit and the wine is bottled after around 3 weeks with a touch ofresidual. Another feather to his bow is his determination to revive almost extinct native grapes! Think PURE GRAPE JUICE made from NATIVE grapes, WILD FERMENTED and zero added sulphites to the final juice. Wines made with no manipulation in the winery and no additions at all. Ramon branched out in 2016 to make wines under his own name to celebrate and embrace the beauty and wonder of natural wines. Fermentation is carried out naturally from indigenous yeasts. Cava in Spain, is the Spanish way of making sparkling wine in exactly the same way as Champagne- the only exception is that winemakers choose to use Native Spanish grapes like Xarelo, Macabeo and Parraleda. Stunning Pet Nat with a cava-like minerality from the border of Garraf Natural Park in Catalonia. Wine Details Alcohol Grade: 11.5 Aging/ Vinification: The two varieties are vinified together. In other words, this is a Pét Nat wine (from the French 'Pétillant Naturel'). Ramon Jané began one of my favourite Spanish producers Mas Candi in 2006 with his amigo Toni Carbó, using their family’s vineyards to produce their own wines which was something out of the ordinary as the tradition as to sell all their grapes to large Cava Houses. A lively Spanish sparkling wine produced by the Mas Candí winery, Tinc Set Ancestral is crafted following the ancestral method. ![]()
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