Producer: Mas Candí
Region: Gunyoles d'Avinyonet, Alt Penedès, Catalonia.
Bottle: 75 cl
Grape Varieties: Xarelo, Macabeu and Parellada
Type: Sparkling Brut Nature Reserva
Alcohol Content: 12.5% vol.
Serving Temperature: 6º - 8º C.
Made from the three traditional cava varieties: Macabeu, Xarelo, and Parellada with a touch of Sumoll 12%, with a higher proportion of Xarel.lo.
Production:
100% own grapes. Exclusively in-house vinification, made by the traditional method. Fermentation in stainless steel vats; second fermentation in the bottle. No expedition liqueur was added. Aged for more than 2 years in bottle on its lees.
Tasting Notes:
A quality sparkling wine of marked Mediterranean character with fine and persistent bubbles, well integrated. Fresh scents of white flowers with a hint of herbaceousness and dried fruit undertones. Good acidity, long and pleasant.
Mas Candí is one of the latest wineries to become members of the new brand, CORPINNAT, which stands for a collective European Union brand established with the aim of distinguishing great sparkling wines made in the heart of the Penedès from 100% organic manual harvest, 100% vinified on the premises of the winery, and long ageing.
THE WINERY
Mas Candí is a very successful joint venture of four young people with an interest in making their own wines from the vines planted by their grandparents on their family's land in Les Gunyoles d'Avinyonet, Alt Penedès, where the Mas Candi Cellar was built in 2006.
All of them, winegrowers and artisan winemakers, have a passionate and restless character to create and try new avenues. As great defenders of native varieties, they have recovered almost extinct Catalan native varieties, and their viticulture practices are always environmentally conscious, using no herbicides or pesticides.
