Murviedro Grand Château du Soliel

Description

Spain has quite a history of producing sparkling wine. It was in the mid-18th century that Josep Raventōs traveled to the Champagne region of France and brought back with him the knowledge of how to produce sparkling wine. After experimenting, he finally made his first Spanish sparkling wine in 1872. Sparkling wine production took off, and many houses made bubbles. There are different ways to create bubbles and the methods vary with production time and quality levels. Grand Château makes their sparkling wine like they make prosecco in Italy and use 100% Viura for this wine. The grapes are harvested from vineyards that sit on the eastern Mediterranean coast of Spain, and the vines are planted in limestone-rich soils. Endless hours of warm sunshine produce fruit with substantial flavour. The method they use is called the tank method. The grapes are picked, crushed, and fermented at 16C to make the base wine. After blending, the secondary fermentation also takes place in pressurized stainless-steel tanks, and then once the pressure reaches 4-5 bars, the wine is filtered under pressure and bottled. Bright yellow with green flecks, this sparkling wine is a great example of Charmat method sparkling wine. Fresh flavours of Bosch pear, peaches, and stone fruit with a creamy tangy mouthfeel. The alcohol rests at 11%, fermented dry but there is a hint of sweet fruit on the palate.

Pairing

Truffle chicken pizza, honey garlic chicken wings, baguette with duck paté.