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Northwest of Barcelona, in the Anoia Valley countryside, surrounded by the Sierra of Montserrat Mountains, is a distinguished family vineyard dating back five hundred years, where some of the finest, most innovative and most inspiring Spanish wines have been cultivated: the Raventós estate. Manuel Raventós, 20th generation winemaker in this area, created in 1986 the first estate-bottled and estate-produced sparkling wine in Spain with the first vintage of Raventós i Blanc. An estate where since 1497 the same family has been working– probably one of the longest-documented viticultural family traditions in the world. Following his father and his grandfather’s dream, Pepe Raventós, the 21st generation, joined Raventós i Blanc with the aim of pursuing excellence in every detail of the winery. Pepe’s spirit of innovation and perfectionism inspired him to create a world-class sparkling wine unlike any other- one made distinct by its minerality. It's safe to say that Raventos is the best sparkling wine producer in Spain and the Mas del Serral is a wine that can rival anything from Champagne.
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Score: 96 points, Wine Advocate
"The sparkling white 2013 Mas del Serral was produced with the field blend of Xarel.lo and Bastard Negre from the Mas del Serral vineyard, 1.92 hectares, that was planted between 1950 and 1954. The wine has 12.5% alcohol, with a pH of 2.91 and 7.1 grams of acidity, bone dry (1.1 grams of sugar) as a Brut Nature. It fermented in concrete egg, where it matured with lees for nine months. It was put to referment with Champagne yeasts in bottle, where it matured for 100 months. It has a complex nose of gunpowder and dry fish, iron and iodine, characterful, different, with a strong personality. It's a great white wine that happens to have bubbles. It has the elegance of the sandy soils. It's velvety, with abundant, fine bubbles and bright acidity; and 2013 was a cooler and wetter year with a mild August, so the grapes were healthy and ripened slowly and thoroughly. 2,425 bottles and 400 magnums were produced. It was disgorged in February 2024."