{"id":5915,"date":"2012-10-31T00:34:38","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T00:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=5915"},"modified":"2012-10-31T00:34:38","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T00:34:38","slug":"recaredo-world-class-cava","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/spain\/recaredo-world-class-cava","title":{"rendered":"Recaredo: world-class Cava?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Great discovery today, made at Les Caves de Pyrene’s sparkling tasting.\u00a0Recaredo. World-class Cava, something that many wine nuts didn’t think was possible.<\/p>\n

The secret to Recaredo’s wines? Biodynamic viticulture and long ageing on lees, on the\u00a0cork. During this lees ageing they carry out Poignetage, a shaking of the bottle to spread out the lees. Riddling and disgorgement is by hand. All the wines are zero dosage.<\/p>\n

In an interesting move, they are carrying out a research\u00a0project to\u00a0isolate and culture yeasts from their\u00a0own\u00a0property to use in the winemaking process. One of the problems for natural winemakers has been that sparkling wine production involves cultured yeasts, so it makes sense to try to isolate the yeasts of the terroir to use for making the wine.<\/p>\n

Cava Recaredo Reserva Particular de Recaredo 2002<\/strong>
\nNine years on the lees. Fine, pure and toasty with some pear notes, and also lots of freshness, despite the age. The palate is taut and linear with some nice freshness and good acidity, as well as subtle pithy notes.\u00a0Real finesse here. 93\/100<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.recaredo.es\/?#en\/welcome<\/a><\/p>\n

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The pinnacle\u00a0of production at Recaredo is\u00a0Tur\u00f3 d\u2019en Mota, a single-vineyard Cava from a 0.97 ha plot, which yields just 2700 bottles. It’s 100% Xarel.lo, and it’s the best Cava I have tried.<\/p>\n

Recaredo<\/strong> Tur\u00f3 d\u2019en Mota 2002<\/strong>
\nVery fine, expressive fruity nose with some subtle toasty depth. Refined and beguiling. The palate is crisp and taut with mineral and toast. Very fine and structured. Concentrated with a dense, focused core. Serious stuff. 94\/100<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.turodenmota.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Find these wines with wine-searcher.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Great discovery today, made at Les Caves de Pyrene’s sparkling tasting.\u00a0Recaredo. World-class Cava, something that many wine nuts didn’t think was possible. The secret to Recaredo’s wines? Biodynamic viticulture and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,71],"tags":[158,371,382],"class_list":["post-5915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spain","category-sparkling-wine","tag-cava","tag-spain","tag-sparkling-wine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5915"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5934,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5915\/revisions\/5934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}