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

Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He founded The Winefront, is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion (and former editor of Halliday magazine), and is the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He is 100% independent, and tastes between 5,000 and 10,000 wines each year, blind and in comparative brackets as often as is practicable.

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Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

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