2006 Gramona Cava Celler Batlle Brut Finca Font de Jui

Community Tasting Notes (4) Avg Score: 93 points

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  7/15/2023 - PacoHigon Likes this wine:

  un excelente espumoso de larga crianza que, además, se ha desarrollado de forma excepcional tras el degüelle.
  Amarillo con reflejos dorados. La nariz es intensa y elegante, de corte clásico y aire maduro, notas de manzana al horno, toques de pastelería final, toques de hierba seca, algo de fruta confitada y especias dulces. En boca la entrada es muy buena, con un paso cremoso merced a una burbuja pequeña y bien integrada, con volumen, notable frescura y una atractiva mineralidad en el retronasal. Largo.

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  12/20/2020 - danckie Likes this wine: 93 Points

  By far the best bottle of cava until now.
  Dry, aged, aged complex paired with elegance. Soft minerality and acidity. Amazing with with our Michelin take out menu with, lobster, sea bass and stingray. Recommended.

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  9/27/2017 - forceberry wrote: 94 Points

  Xarel-lo (75%), Macabeo (25%); organic. Aged for some 120 months under natural cork. The liqueur de tirage comes from a solera system over 100 years old. 12% alcohol, dosage 6 g/l. Served in a blind tasting of grower Champagnes as a ringer.
  
  Medium-deep yellow-green color. Just the first sniff tells that there is something weird going on here - there are fresh aromas of lemon zest, ripe red apples, fresh herbs, some rubber, autolytic hints of roasted nuts and nut paste and a touch of very Riesling-like petrol. Fresh flavors of ripe apples and citrus fruits, some steely minerality, a little bit of some waxy character and a hint of subtle autolytic character of brioche and custard. The flavors seem rather straightforward at first, but there is some definite understated complexity to the wine underneath its bright, suave texture. The wine is moderately high in acidity with moderately crisp but very fine and persistent mousse. The finish is long, bright and lively with piercing steely minerality and vibrant, mouth-cleansing flavors of ripe red apples, wet stones, some grapefruit zest, a little bit of herbal greenness and a hint of creamy autolysis.
  
  Everybody in the blind tasting noticed that there was something a bit off the beat here, but a great majority still liked the wine very much and no-one actually thought that it wasn't a Champagne! Of course in retrospect it was pretty obvious that this was a Cava - there were those slightly rubbery aromas and a touch of greenness typical of Cava (and unlike the unpleasant greenness of Champagnes one might come across in wines from cooler vintages) - but the wine still didn't stick out quality-wise in any way from the lineup. On the contrary, it was one of the better wines in the tasting, putting many grower Champagnes behind it. Perhaps a wine more about texture and minerality than fruit or complex autolysis, this is still one wonderful Cava and definitely among the great ones out there. I can imagine a few years more in a cellar might benefit the wine, perhaps accentuating a bit its autolytic characteristics and bringing out some more tertiary complexity. Not cheap at 66,98€, but still manages to deliver. Recommended.

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  3/25/2017 - kuumies wrote:

  A Champagne vs Cava blind tasting (Helsinki): The nose is a bit understated with notes of fresh apple, cantaloupe and herbs. However the palate compensates for the nose and then some, starting with the huge, dense and very persistent mousse, which then reveals a gloriously chiselled and powerful mouthfeel. Not so much about flavors as it is about texture, this is a proper wine with admirable density and focus. Bone dry yet impeccably balanced, it seems to offer a different shade on each sip. Easily the best Cava I have had to date.

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