Segura Viudas Reserva Heredad Brut Cava 2021 750ml

This is the top of the Segura Viudas range, and it is made the slow way: 75% Macabeo and 25% Chardonnay from Catalunya, 12% alcohol.

Old-vine fruit comes in by hand in 25-kilo crates, and only the first and lightest half of the pressing goes into the wine. Nine base wines are fermented separately, the bottles are turned by hand in wooden pupitres, and each one is shaken before disgorgement to pull more out of the lees. Dosage is 9 grams, so it finishes dry.

Smoke and biscuit from the time on the lees, then honey, orchard fruit and a dried-fruit depth. Fuller than Cava usually is.

Cava at this level sits closer to Champagne than to Prosecco, at a fraction of the Champagne price.

Serve it cold with oysters, cured ham, brie or white fish. It is also the bottle to bring when you want the host to notice.

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