Cava Blend
Castell del Real Tesoro Cava
Another cava from Outlandish imports, this one a bit more fun and affordable. Again, this wine uses the traditional blend of Macabeo, Xarel.lo and Parellada grapes, this time aged between 12 to 18 months on lees. I think the point here is to drink it and enjoy it, so I’ll keep the note short.
Cellar Antonio Mascaro Brut Nigrum
The Spanish tend to favour very dry and obviously acidic sparkling wines, the classic example of this is the Brut Nature wines that are made with out the addition of sugar. Now this is a brut, which can have zero to fifteen grams of sugar, I’d say this is at the very low end of that scale too. A blend of Macabeo, Xarel.lo and Parellada and aged on lees for 24 months, this shows good lees characters but retains the freshness and vibrancy of the fruit.
Raventos i Blanc Brut Reserva 2006
This time of year, Cava has to be a ‘go to’ wine. It’s fresh, high quality bubbly that doesn’t break the budget in these times of Economic Crisis, Recession and the impending doom of 2009. Well, thats what all the papers seem to be saying here. Of course the standard of journalism in most of the papers seems to have fallen to the level where tarot card readers are given more credibility these days…There is some fairly average, cheap cava around, like any other sparkling wine, but choose wisely and you’ll find something to replace that expensive NV champagne…
Augusti Torello Mata Reserva 2005
I like some bubbles on a Friday night, its always a good way to kick of the weekend I have been drinking a bit of the Raventos i Blanc Reserva 2005 and needed something a bit different so I grabbed a bottle of this fairly new import from The Spanish Aquisition. I tend to favour the more focused and lower dosage sparkling wines, and this pressed all the right buttons.
Vilarnau Gran Reserva Brut 2003
Just a quick note on this one. Gran Reserva Cava is one of those styles that we don't see a lot of here in Australia but they are well worth hunting down if you like more complicity in your sparkling wine. You get more aged characters (of course) but also great freshness and complexity when [...]
Vilarnau Brut Nature NV
Brut Nature is idiosyncratic wine style, the Spanish seem to love it, but the rest of the world seems to think: oohh too much acid and not enough fruit for me. Personally, it's a style I really like. Its bone dry, fresh, shows tight fruit and acid when it's done right. And it's cracking on a [...]
Vilarnau Brut Rosado NV
Rose cava has got to be one of the toughest wine styles to find something cheap and good. To be honest the odds are stacked against you, most are fairly average: too sweet or just bland with either too much or not enough acid. But there is a couple of rose cavas around that deliver [...]
Vilarnau Brut NV
March and April are my favourite months of the year. Not only is the weather starting to get cool so you can drink red wine again, but it's also when a lot of the new release Spanish wines arrive in Australia. The tasting pile (which is really just a shelf in my wine fridge) is [...]
Torre Oria Cava Brut NV
A bloke I worked with years ago with dropped me an email from out of the blue about this Cava he'd just had. I had to have a look he said, nice and fresh appley goodness apparently. So I tracked down a bottle at Randalls last week and polished it off in the backyard on [...]
Raventos i Blanc Gran Reserva de la Finca 2003
This is the top level wine from Raventos i Blanc, well that is imported to Australia anyway. There are a couple of other top level wines in the range that don’t make it out here. Its a blend of the traditonal white cava grapes with 10% chardonay and 5% pinot noir. Aged for 36 months [...]
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