Winemaker Notes
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2017 Josep Coca Brut Nature comes from a plot planted by the grandfather of Marcel Coca, the current generation and winemaker. It's mostly Xarel.lo with some 15% Macabeo that refermented in bottle where it was kept with the lees for 72 months. It has some toasty and yeasty notes and the classical aromas of aged sparkling wines from the zone—balsamic and Mediterranean with hints of camphor and fennel. It has a seamless palate with abundant, fine bubbles that give it texture. It's tasty, fresh and balanced, with a dry finish.
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Vinous
The 2017 Brut Nature Josep Coca is a Corpinnat blend of 85% Xarel·lo and 15% Macabeu from Penedès, disgorged in October 2023 after aging for 69 months on the lees. It presents a rare lactic character on the nose, complemented by hints of lime and butter against a brioche backdrop. Dry and fairly evolved, the warm 2017 vintage enhanced its rapid development.
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.