Description

Un poème gustatif dédié à la Parellada: voilà la meilleure façon de définir ce blanc mémorable. Issu de vignes cultivées selon les principes de la biodynamie et bénéficiant d’une fermentation et d’un élevage minutieux en fûts, ce vin de terroir se distingue par une signature très personnelle. Surprenant, gastronomique et enchanteur.

Fiche technique

Le domaine
Type de vin
Fermenté en barrique Blanc
Millésime
2023
Alcool
12.0% vol.
Production
2 420 bouteilles
Cépage
100% Parellada
Origine
Cataluña
Certifications
EU Organic Bio

Dégustation

Nez
Élégant, floral et fruité. Des notes minérales apparaissent en finale.
Bouche
Ferme, onctueux et doté d'une acidité vive.
Température de service
Il est recommandé de le servir entre 9 et 12 °C.

Vignoble et élaboration

Description
Des vignobles cultivés selon les principes de la viticulture biodynamique.
Année de plantation
37 ans.
Sol
Mélange d'argile et de pierres.
Climat
Cuisine continentale aux influences méditerranéennes.
Vendanges
Vendange manuelle du 13 au 19 septembre.
Vinification
Macération pré-fermentaire pendant 24 heures. Le pressurage des raisins est très délicat et la fermentation s'effectue uniquement avec des Levures naturelles dans des fûts de 225 litres.
Elevage
Élevage de près de 12 mois sur ses lies fines.
Embouteillage
En août 2018. Il est laissé au repos pendant deux à trois ans avant d'être commercialisé.

L'avis des experts

The Wine Advocate:

A pure Parellada Montonega, the 2017 Terra Vermella de Nin is a wine they think can age for a very long time given its extraordinary acidity (a pH of 2.8 and 6.5 grams of tartaric acid). The alcohol is a moderate 12% even if the grapes were picked later (the 13th to 19th of September) in the warm 2017 vintage. It comes from a 37-year-old organically (certified) and biodynamically farmed vineyard on red clay soils, hence the name, Terra Vermella, which means "red soils" in Catalan. The modus operandi was the same as with the other whites—pressing the bunches that are left to macerate in the press for 24 hours and the juice put to ferment in 300-liter oak barrels after letting it settle for one day. All of the wines ferment with their natural yeasts; in this case, the wine completed almost one year in barrel before bottling, and the bottles are kept for two to three years before they are sold. This is also from the Pla de Manlleu zone of Penedès but is sold without appellation of origin. It has a slightly closed and faintly reductive personality with notes of toasted sesame seeds, gunpowder, smoke and flint a little à la Coche-Dury/Leflaive or some German Rieslings, with some diesel-like, mineral hints. It has tasty flavors, as the grapes ripened well in a warm year like 2017. It has pungent and deep flavors and very good balance between moderate alcohol and very good acidity, which makes it come through as fresh and balanced. 2,420 bottles were filled in August 2018.