Xarel-la Brut Nature 2012 Sparkling Wine

Elaboration

Guilera was founded in 1927 with a philosophy that remains as quietly radical today as it was nearly a century ago: that Cava needs time to become a Gran Cava, and that producing 30,000 bottles a year with ageing periods ranging from 24 months to 13 years is not a limitation but the entire point. Most Cava is released within months. Guilera's most celebrated expressions spend years — and their Xarel·la Brut Nature 2012 is the most complete proof of what that patience produces. One hundred percent Xarel·lo, the native Catalan variety that Guilera has always championed as the key to the uniqueness of Penedès and its Mediterranean landscapes — vinified with complete precision, aged thirteen years in bottle and released as a Brut Nature with zero dosage, because a wine of this depth and character needs nothing added to make it complete. Fresh, crystalline and genuinely elegant in the way that only serious long-aged Cava achieves.