Sabaté i Coca Corpinnat Mosset Brut Nature 2021/21-21

	Top-quality sparkling wine from Penedès
	From organic, hand-picked grapes
	Rich and complex thanks to 40 months of bottle aging
	Sabaté i Coca is a member of the prestigious Corpinnat

Castellroig Reserva Brut

Refined mousse, youthful and lightly spicy on the nose with nuances of anise, yellow fruit, and fennel. The taste starts fresh, juicy, and dry, finishing aromatically with a lingering mousse.

Penèdes Cava

Nine leading Cava producers have united in 'Corpinnat'. Through their methods, they distinguish themselves from giants like Freixenet and Codorníu. The sparkling wines are made in the members' own cellars, using exclusively home-grown, hand-picked, and organic grapes.

The same applies to Sabaté i Coca, which produces a truly fantastic sparkling white wine using the beautiful Mosset grape from the traditional Xarel-lo, Macabeo, and Parellada grapes. Thanks to no less than 40 months of bottle aging, this Brut Nature has lovely brioche notes and a wonderfully mild start. Think of Vintage Champagne, but from Catalonia and for a fraction of the price.

Awards

Listing
De Grote Hamersma - May 2020: 8.5 | Dry naturally, but distinctly ripe and pleasing

Description
Sparkling Spanish, and from the Penedès, yet on the label the term 'cava' is conspicuously absent. Instead: Corpinnat. Derived from cor (heart) and Pinnat – the original form of Penedès. Chosen as a flag by a small group of former cava producers distancing themselves from the DO Cava. Because they are ashamed of the quality level of a large number of their colleagues. Price tags of sometimes €3.99 damage the reputation of the category. Big names such as Recaredo and Gramona, among others, shed the cava 'quality stamp' in 2019 and now sail under the Corpinnat flag. And if you want to know who that elite is: see www.corpinnat.com. One of the prestigious fincas is Sabaté i Coca, specializing in terroir-driven wines. Of which we now find a vintage Turó del Mosset Terrases del Bitlles 2014 in the glass. Aromatic orange blossom, marzipan, and some slivered almonds. Dry, naturally, but distinctly ripe and pleasing. NB: it was bottled as Cava, but came out as Corpinnat.

Listing
Jancis Robinson - January 2020: 16/20 points | Very ripe fruit, full of toast aromas and a rich nose

Description
Tasted blind. Very ripe fruit, full of toast aromas and a rich nose full of nuances. Complex. Quite dry, but a restrained freshness. On the palate, it keeps its very ripe fruit flavors paired with fennel and nuts (but no pastry). Well made with a tight finish.

Listing
The Wine Advocate - August 2019: 91/100 points | Very tasty flavors and a dry palate with a chalky texture

Description
The new sparkling white 2014 Mosset Brut Nature is from a zone that names the wine, a terraced part of the Bitlles River in Penedès. This is the first vintage produced. It has a very expressive nose with a notable absence of fruit and is stony, austere and mineral with some lemon peel citrus twist and some fennel. It has very tasty flavors and a dry palate with a chalky texture and a saline hint on the finish. Brilliant. This is not about the grapes, but it's produced with 65% Xarel lo, 25% Macabeu and 10% Parellada and matured with the lees in bottle for at least 48 months.