Vins El Cep Claror Paratge Qualificat Can Prats 2016

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Vins El Cep Claror Paratge Qualificat Can Prats 2016.

Vins El Cep Claror Paratge Qualificat Can Prats 2016
12% alcohol, cork, Penedés/Spain.

Grown biodynamically. 84 months on lees. Made with 40% Xarel·lo (planted in 1960), 30% Macabeo and 30% Parellada (both planted 1969). Brut Nature.

Pristine aromatics. Aged, fresh, complex, immaculate. This is quality wine. Oysters, lemons, breads, creamy autolytic characters, sherried notes, honey on toast. Brut nature but it doesn’t matter at this stage, it has flesh and softness and breadth and more. Oystery notes talk over the savoury complexity of the finish. This is finesse. This is excellent. 95 points.

Campbell Mattinson

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 the highly respected The Winefront site.

Mattinson has been a respected wine critic and photo-journalist 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 prized Best Australian Sports Writing Award.

Mattinson 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.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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