Avinyó La Ticota Gran Reserva Brut Nature 2017
12% alcohol, cork, Cana/Spain.
Oldest vines in the Penedès region, planted in 1940, all grown organically. Made with 100% Xarello grapes. Kept on lees for 6+ years.
Salty but well balanced. Exquisitely dry. Scents and flavours of fennel and tonic and orange rind. Love this. Powerful, dry and direct. Cava worth savouring. 94 points.
This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of both The Winefront site (founded in 2002, and the home of Australia’s best Australian wine reviews) and Mattinson Photography.
Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer since 1987. He’s the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He’s a past winner of a Louis Roederer International Wine Media Award; is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter; and is the author of the best-selling novel We Were Not Men. He’s also a winner of a St Kilda Film Festival Award (as writer-director) and is a former winner of the national Best Australian Sports Writing Award.
Mattinson, who is 100% independent, puts a score out of 100 on every wine that he reviews. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.
