Recaredo Corpinnat Turó d'en Mota de Recaredo Brut Nature (Disg. Oct 24) 2011

97 POINTS

Guía Peñín tasting panel

The 2011 Turó d'en Mota is 100% Xarel·lo from Penedès, aged 150 months. It opens with aromas of ginger cookies, lemon zest and subtle field herbs, underpinned by wafer and extended aging notes. The palate is marked by pastry flavors, a chalky texture and a precise, delicate expression that lingers on gingerbread and layers of nuance. Long and dry, it is a refined, delicate sparkling wine. Turó exemplifies how the bubbles of Penedès can achieve a singular profile in the sparkling wine world: weightless yet complex, leaving the mouth both refreshed and richly flavored.

96 POINTS

Luis Gutierrez - Robert Parker Wine Advocate

2011 was again an unusual year: at the end of the winter, rain was triple the historical average, and in the summer, the lack of rain and the heat made them pick their whole crop in only 18 days. The grapes for the 2011 Turó d'en Mota were picked early, the 23rd of August, and they picked 3,866 kilos, which represents a yield of 21 hectoliters per hectare. All in all, the average temperature coincides with the historical average (15.6 degrees Celsius), and rainfall was lower, 433 liters, compared with the historical average of 528 liters. It fermented in 300-liter oak barrels and refermented in bottle, where it was kept with lees for a minimum of 12 years. This is one of the years (also 2003 and 2005) when the wines suffered dehydration, and that concentrated everything, including acidity, and the wine has a low pH of 2.96. It has a nose of bread dough and wet chalk, notes of Mediterranean herbs, even esparto grass, a little riper, with a velvety palate, textured, with very fine bubbles, balanced and fresh after 150 months in bottle with lees. 2,646 bottles produced. It was disgorged in October 2024.