Pares Balta Bassegues 2010

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Mattinson review of Pares Balta Bassegues 2010.

Pares Balta Bassegues 2010
12% alcohol, cork, Penedés, Spain.

Spanish Cava, grown organically, hand harvested, 10 year maturation prior to release. Made with xarel.lo grapes.

Wow. Amazing nose. So honeyed and smoky and brimful of both stonefruit and grapefruit. Amazing introduction. Palate introduces a saltiness, an earthiness, a minerality. Those honeyed characters come from its 15-year-old status. But this still presents as fabulously fresh, characterful, complex, honeyed and chalky. 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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