Can Sala Vinyes de Can Sala 2015

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Can Sala Vinyes de Can Sala 2015.

Can Sala Vinyes de Can Sala 2015
12.5% alcohol, cork, Penedès/Spain.

This is a Brut Nature style of Spanish Cava made with Xarel·lo and Parellada grapes. It’s organically grown on 75-year-old vines, and matured for 10 years prior to release. Respect on every level here.

This is wild. It’s exaggerated in a magnetic way. Earth, salt, chalk, toast, autolysis, nuts. Jamon of a wine; aged, characterful, salty and ripe. So dry, so aromatic, so squeaky in texture, so sherried and so fruity at once. Despite all this exaggeration there’s also a soft, almost mellow aspect. Exotic plus plus was my final impression. 96 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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