340/365 – Catalonia – D.O. Empordà – Colera – Celler Hugas de Batlle – 30.70 – 2012
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30.70 – 2012, 30% Muscat de Alexandria and 70 Garnacha Blanca
Light yellow color with golden reflections. White stone fruits, honey, menthol and grass. Perfumed nose with subtle hints of peaches, apricots and the Muscat standing out with its honeyed aroma on a background of white fowers and aromatic herbs, leaning towards the typicity of white Grenache. large entry, managing to maintain freshness and intensity, slightly salty and the taste of wet stone. Great body and the honey, although mineraly, is noticed in the mouth as well. Fresh, persistent. large and ending on a slightly bitter and herbaceous note. Lovely wine!
An innovative coupage bringing together two of the most traditional whites of L’Empordà: White Grenache and Muscat de Alexandria. One provides the body and volume thanks to its perfect adaptation to the climate of Colera, the other gives the wine its attractive, summer, perfume. Together, the two make a fresh, pleasant wine, the essence of the land where it was created. The hillsides of Colera inspired the construction of this wine, it is almost like being at the rocks by the sea as the waves keep slapping them and the water playing, moving up and down, just like a nice tune by Herbie Hancock.
Varieties that resist the Tramontana wind that blasts the leaves. Vines grown near the sea provide the unmistakeable and almost sickly Mediterranean sweetness of the Muscat and Grenache grapes, always turned golden by the sun, which even wild boar and small birds get to enjoy before the autumn arrives. A maximum of the perfume and harmony is extracted from these grapes and placed in the bottle, sealed with a cork to help preserve the aromas. A fresh mouthful of the Colera vineyards.
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