Gramona Celler Batlle Gran Reserva Brut 2014
HK$ 798.18
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The older 2014 Celler Batlle Brut Nature is the first vintage of this wine from 75% Xarel.lo and 25% Macabeo from the Font Jui vineyard to be offered with zero added sugar (as a brut nature). It fermented and matured in bottle with the lees under a natural cork that gives the wine a spicier twist (curry) from the old solera rancio wine added. 2014 was a cooler year with more rain (even more than 2013), and they implemented some changes, mainly the zero dósage in the wine, with no added sugar, which seems to have improved even the texture of the wine. It's super tasty, spicy and dry. I think this has to be the finest vintage of Celler Batlle so far. 7,000 bottles produced. It was disgorged in October 2023, nine years after the harvest. There will be some changes from 2015, produced from a specific lieu-dit or 'paraje.'
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12.0%
Description
From the depths of the deepest Penedès, where time stretches with the elegant slowness of the traditional method, comes Celler Batlle, Gramona's great sparkling wine. A jewel that is not improvised: behind it there are more than 130 years of a family that has made sparkling wine a religion. The story begins with a friendship forged between the Gramona and Batlle families, winegrowers and producers of still wines at the beginning of the 20th century. It was Josep Batlle, the great-grandfather of the current team, who decided to take a bold turn: to opt for long ageing in a country where haste and youth dominated the market. Today, Gramona Celler Batlle is his tribute: a cuvée only possible with patience and an intimate relationship with the land.
It is made mainly from Xarel.lo (70%) and Macabeo (30%), coming from old vines in clay-limestone soils of the Font de Jui estate in Sant Sadurní d'Anoia. Here, the Mediterranean climate brings light and ripeness, but the altitude and the mountain breeze help to preserve the tension. It is a land of contrasts, where biodiversity is respected as an ethical principle: Gramona has been working biodynamically for years, understanding the vineyard as a living, harmonious organism. It is not just a matter of caring for the grape, but of listening to it.
Winemaking
The grapes are harvested by hand, with selection in the vineyard and on the table, cluster by cluster. After a gentle pressing, the must is fermented in stainless steel tanks with indigenous yeasts. But the soul of Gramona Celler Batlle lies in its ageing: more than 10 years on the lees, at a constant temperature in Gramona's underground cellars. Each bottle is disgorged manually and on demand, without the addition of expedition liqueur or with a minimum dosage, seeking the purest expression of the wine. This long ageing is not an adornment, it is the backbone that gives it depth, elegance and that almost silent complexity that only time can chisel out.
Taste
In Gramona Celler Batlle the nose is pure filigree: dried flowers, candied citrus peel, a whisper of roasted white fruit and toasted hazelnuts that open up little by little, without shrillness, like an ancient and noble perfume. There are notes of brioche bread, fresh butter, an echo of musk, and a background of wet chalk, mineral and fresh, as if someone had opened a window onto the very soil of the Penedès.
On the palate, it is a restrained symphony: creamy and sharp at the same time, with a very fine, almost ethereal bubble that caresses rather than bites. The acidity is perfectly integrated, like an invisible pillar supporting everything. Notes of baked apple, lemon peel, dried fennel, with a saline, long, persistent finish. It is not a wine of immediate impact, but one of those that you discover in sips, that force you to stop, to think, to take a deep breath.
Gramona Celler Batlle is not a sparkling wine for toasting; it is a meditation in the glass. It is proof that the Penedès region can look Champagne in the eye, with its own identity, without copying, without asking permission. A wine that does not shout, but leaves its mark.
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