Winemaker Notes
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
A pure sparkling wine that’s a very pale salmon color. Subtle nose of blanched almonds, dried herbs, chalk and a hint of steel, extending to a medium- to full-bodied palate with a creamy mousse and a bone-dry, pithy mid-palate. You don’t get the piercing acidity that you do from Champagne, but this shows freshness. Really pure, long and structured finish. From organically grown grapes. Xarel-lo vermell, bastard negre and sumoll. Drink now or hold.
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Vinous
The 2021 Brut Nature Textures de Pedra is composed of 60% Xarel·lo Vermell and 40% Sumoll from Conca del Riu Anoia, Penedès. It was aged 42 months on the lees and shows slightly mature aromas of cherry, herbs, a touch of rubber and modest complexity. Dry and chalky with a fresh, tense expression, fine bubbles and a hint of grip, it offers a precise blanc de noirs profile.
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.