Winemaker Notes
Intense aromas of yeast, pastries, wildflowers, and aromatic plants. In the mouth, the wine is voluminous, with fine bubbles and an aftertaste of fresh grass, exhibiting just the right bitterness and pleasantness of the Xarel·lo variety. A Mediterranean character that only their house's Xarel·los is capable of giving.
Professional Ratings
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Wine Enthusiast
Elegant and complex, this brings together scents of preserved lemon, baked red apple, and white peach with deep notes of chestnut honey, pie crust, roasted hazelnut, and celery seed. Fine bubbles carry the flavors through a crisp, dry, minerally, saltsprinkled finish. It’ll be a phenomenal bubbly for intricate pairings.
Representing the topmost expression of a Champagne house, a vintage Champagne is one made from the produce of a single, superior harvest year. Vintage Champagnes account for a mere 5% of total Champagne production and are produced about three times in a decade. Champagne is typically made as a blend of multiple years in order to preserve the house style; these will have non-vintage, or simply, NV on the label. The term, "vintage," as it applies to all wine, simply means a single harvest year.
A superior source of white grapes for the production of Spain’s prized sparkling wine, Cava, the Penedes region is part of Catalunya and sits just south of Barcelona. Medio Penedès is the most productive source of the Cava grapes, Macabeo, Xarel-lo, and Parellada. Penedes also grows Garnacha and Tempranillo (here called Ull de Llebre in Catalan), for high quality reds and rosès.