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Maria Casanovas Cava Brut Reserva Glaç

"This is built to age gracefully...but it is already a very serious and tasty bottle of bubbly." —

John Gilman, View from the Cellar

Winery

MARIA CASANOVAS

Appellation

Cava D.O.

Grape(s)

40% Pinot Noir, 60% Traditional Cava varieties: Xarel•lo, Macabeo, Parellada

Altitude/Soil

300 meters / lime-rich clay with abundant gravel

Farming Methods

Practicing Organic

Harvest

Pinot Noir was harvested by hand during the last week of August, other varieties during the first weeks of Septmber

Production

Each variety was fermented separately; Pinot Noir was completely destemmed; the white grapes, whole-custer pressed

Aging

Second fermentation and aging in its own bottle for a minimum of 14 months, no dosage

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Maria Casanovas Cava Brut Reserva Glaç NV

92+ (VfC) 90 (WE) 90 (VM)

Score	Publication	Review	Copy
92+	View from the Cellar	The Cava “Glaç” Brut Nature from Maria Casanovas is comprised of a blend of forty percent pinot noir and sixty percent a fairly equal mix of the traditional three grapes of Cava: Macabeu, Parellada and Xarel-lo. The wine is aged for at least a year and a half on its fine lees and is produced from the older vines that the family farms, with the vines ranging from twenty to thirty years of age. The current release of Glaç offers up a superb bouquet of lemon, clementine, salty soil tones, wild fennel, ocean breeze and just a whisper of bread dough. On the palate the wine is full-bodied, crisp and beautifully balanced, with a fine core, bright acids, elegant mousse, a fine base of minerality and excellent length and grip on the complex and still youthful finish. This is built to age gracefully and will be even better with a few years in the cellar, but it is already a very serious and tasty bottle of bubbly. 2016-2030+. [Review notes for March 2015 Disgorging]
90	Wine Enthusiast	Dusty, bready apple aromas are direct and not too yeasty. This feels tight and refined, with citric acidity. Lightly briny apple and citrus flavors finish steady and fresh, but also smooth. For brut nature, this gets things right. October 19, 2017 - How Spain is Finding Elegance by Breaking from Tradition
90	Vinous Media	(disgorged March 2015): Bright, green-hued straw. Vibrant, mineral-accented orchard fruits, lemon pith and honeysuckle aromas are deepened by suggestions of honey and ginger. Racy and precise, with strong lift and cut to its Meyer lemon and green apple flavors. The long clinging finish echoes the citrus, floral and mineral notes emphatically.

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