Meet Sicus, Eduard Pié's wildly honest take on Catalan wine. 

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Ever heard of Sumoll? Cartoixà? Garrut?

These are grapes that grow in one place, farmed by one person, buried back into the same earth they came from. That person is Eduard Pié, and this is Sicus.

⛰️ One Man, One Mountain, One Mission

Eduard Pié grew up in Bonastre, a small town in Tarragona surrounded by vineyards. He started making natural wine in 2003 while working at a local cava producer, quietly reviving his family's home winemaking tradition on the side. By 2010, that side project had a name: Sicus. And the man has been putting things back into the earth ever since.

🌿 The Vineyard That Runs Itself

His vineyards sit just 6km from the Mediterranean, cool enough to keep the wines fresh, close enough to taste the sea. Eduard farms all 11 hectares without chemicals and without ploughing. Wild grasses grow freely between the rows, insects move in, soil stays alive. It looks a bit chaotic, but that's where the beauty lies.

Farmed without chemicals and without ploughing, the focus is on biodiversity and natural balance.

From vine to vessel. Left: where it starts. Right: where it rests.

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🏺 Back Into the Ground It Goes

Clay amphorae, buried directly back into the vineyard soil. The earth regulates the temperature, the clay allows gentle micro-oxygenation, and what comes out is precise, saline, and tastes exactly like the mountain it grew on.

"We bottle the landscape: Our hallmark is to craft wines that are true to their origin, which is why we guarantee, manage, and preserve each of the factors that make up the terroir. Our obsession with honest winemaking techniques results in fresh, taut wines with a low alcohol content." - Eduard Pie

What starts in the ground, stays in the ground. Turns out burying wine underground in clay pots is actually genius. Makes every other ageing method feel a bit boring, honestly.

Sumoll, Malvasía, Cartoixà, Macabeu. Grapes most wine lists have never heard of, doing exactly what they were built to do.

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🍷 What's in the Glass

Here are 3 natural wine options to start:

• Sicus Hidra 2021 Cranberry, cherry, strawberry, with a slightly wild leathery edge. Textured and expressive with real depth. The most approachable way into Sicus and a great place to start. A delicious red perfect for a hot Malaysia day!
  
• Sicus Sassy 2020 Bright, juicy, and full of energy. Cherry, strawberry, herbs, easy finish. Chill it slightly and open it with char kway teow or a casual tray of satay. Lives up to its name.
  
  
• Sicus Sons Cartoixà 2018 Orange, lemon, toast, and floral notes. Fresh and mineral with subtle texture that makes it genuinely tasty at the table. 
  

If we're being honest, "Spain" in most people's heads still means Rioja. Sicus is the reminder that there's a whole mountain worth of wine nobody's talking about yet. Eduard has been quietly getting it right since 2003, and these bottles are proof that good wine doesn't need to announce itself.

Limited stock, and once they're gone, they're gone.

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