Torello Gran Torello Brut Nature, Cava, Spain

托雷洛酒莊特級自然極干型起泡酒

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The 2015 Gran Torelló Brut Nature was a warmish year but a year with snow in Penedès, which allowed a healthy crop and perfect ripeness in the grapes. This comes from their oldest vineyards, which deliver wines with more color, structure and complexity. It had a long aging in bottle with the lees (over 70 months), which gives it a lot of complexity and tertiary aromas and flavors and small bubbles, and it's very alive and fresh, with only 11.5% alcohol and good acidity and a bitter and salty twist in the finish. It's balsamic and a little medicinal too. It's a direct wine with a very dry and long finish. As with their other wines, they are increasing the percentage of Xarel.lo, but in 2015 they replaced some Parellada by Macabeo. So, this year the blend was 46% Xarel.lo, 36% Macabeo and 18% Parellada. 10,500 bottles were produced.

The balsamic and faintly smoky 2011 Gran Torelló Brut Nature had a long aging in bottle with the lees (75 months) and is very alive and fresh, with notes of freshly cut grass. It's from a warm and dry year, more in line with 2009 than 2010, and is a rounder wine and perhaps a little riper, with no sugar. This has a very dry and long finish and is remarkable for over six years of lees aging. It develops a distinct note of bitter almonds and peat. This 2011 is a blend of 46% Xarello, 30% Macabeo and 24% Parellada. This has a liqueur d'expedition without sugar, only white sparkling wine aged in bottle for seven years. 14,077 bottles produced.