Parés Baltà Rosa Cusiné 2021
12% alcohol, DIAM cork, Cava/Spain.
100% Garnacha Tinta, grown biodynamically, brut nature.
This is super savoury and super good. If this was available for me to buy I’d drink it by the bucketload. It’s a terrific pink sparkling wine. It has body. It has texture. It’s savoury. And it’s alive with strawberry and wild herb, toast and preserved citrus flavours. It finishes dry and textured. It is, simply, gorgeous. 94 points.
—
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.
Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.
