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

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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