Producer: Raventós i Blanc                                  

Region: Catalonia (Penedés – Conca del Riu Anoia)

Bottle: 75 cl     

Grape Varieties: 43% Macabeu, 30% Xarelo, 19% Parellada and 5% Monastrell

Type: Sparkling Reserva Brut Rosé

Alcohol Content: 12% vol.

Serving Temperature: 6º–8ºC.

Quality sparkling wine and organic. Elaborated after the traditional Cava varietals with a small percentage of Monastrell sourced from 30- to 40-year-old vines. Eco-friendly viticulture.

Production: 

Hand-harvested and quickly transferred to the presses by gravity. Slowly pressed at low pressure. Fermentation in stainless steel tanks at a controlled temperature with a second fermentation in bottle. Ageing in stacks for a minimum of 15 months.

Reducing sugar: 7.5 g/l.

Tasting Notes:

Pale pink colour with fine bubbles. Complex and elegant nose with clean aromas of citrus and white fruits. Crisp on the entry with harmonious and elegant fresh red-fruit flavours. Good acidity and freshness on an excellent finish.

Note: Best consumed up to 12–18 months after the disgorgement date. 

THE WINERY

Raventós i Blanc, a producer of top-quality cava with a well-deserved reputation for elegant, well-conceived white wines, comprises a 90-ha estate vineyard, woods, and a lake in Sant Sadurni d’Anoia that have belonged to the Raventós family since 1497. The winery was founded in 1986 by Josep-Maria Raventos, a member of the Codorniu family. After abandoning the presidency of the big firm Codorniu, he set up his new independent, much smaller, and quality-orientated winery.

Today, the operation is run by his own son and grandson, direct descendants. At the end of 2012, in order to better understand and convey the viticultural traditions in terms of soil and climate, they took the decision to leave the Cava Appellation and adopt a new, uncertified designation to classify their wines: "Conca del Riu Anoia", the name for a small geographical area around the Anoia River Valley in eastern Penedès.