El Gramona III Lustros 2004 is made from Xarel·lo (70%) and Macabeo (30%) grape varieties.
This cava spends five years cork-aging in the silence of the cellar.
Tasting notes: Sight: Bright straw-coloured yellow with green tones. Nose: Strong aging, smoked and toasted notes. Mountain flowers and nuts that will quite possibly fuse into a pleasing butter aroma, of café au lait caramel, and even a few forest, dried fig and marron glacé tones. Taste: Soft touch, the bubbles pack an elegant attack, with pronounced overtones of ripeness, blancmange, pine nut bread, and pastries, thoroughly covering the palate and bringing back memories of nut shells, rosemary, rye, malt, pralines, dry bread... good feel to the foam, which evokes cream on some parts of the palate, well-modulated CO2.
What the critics say...
Robert Parker: 92 points(01/05/2011)
The light gold colored 2004 Gran Reserva Brut Nature Lustros is a more vinous offering with enticing notes of mineral, spring flowers, almonds, and white peach informing the nose. Mouth-filling, long, and nicely proportioned, it will drink nicely for another 2-3 years.
For over 125 years, the Gramona Family has been making cavas and wines with personality. They bear the cellar’s hallmark and the traits of the terroir found in each of their estates. Gramona has over 40 hectares of vines in its five estates of the Penedès, one of the world’s richest, most... diverse winemaking regions: La Plana, Mas Escorpí, El Serralet, Font Jui and La Solana. Gramona has been growing Xarel•lo grapes for 150 years in one of the region’s oldest vineyards of this variety, and in the Mas Escorpí estate, at the highest altitude in the municipality, it grows foreign varieties such as Pinot Noir, Gewürztraminer and Chardonnay. Since the 19th century, Gramona has stood out for making the cavas with the longest aging on the market, from the 18 months of its youngest cava to the 10 years of its longest-aging. This is only comparable to the aging of some of the best Champagne wines, where it is proven that a great sparkling wine takes years to become one. This aging involves unique handcrafted processes (which necessarily limit the volumes of bottles) and research in the vineyard and cellar, resulting in cavas of a complexity and smoothness that have placed Gramona among the world’s most exclusive sparkling wines.
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