2018 Cava Mestres Coquet Gran Reserva Brut Nature

The Mestres Coquet has a straw yellow color with greenish reflections and a beautiful perlage. Very refined and beautifully integrated bubbles. This Mestres Coquet is a very elegant cava with aromatic richness. The nose notes of white fruit, apple, citrus and orange peel. In the mouth you notice the freshness of the fruit with the notes of aging and maturity. It is a cava that fits easily at any time of the meal. The Coquet is a blend of Macabeu (30%) Xarel lo (45%) Parellada (25%) from a vineyard that is more than 50 years old. The Mestres Coquet Gran Reserva Brut Nature is, as a Brut Nature should be, very dry with less than 1.5 grams of residual sugar. Mestres is known for its long aging and the Coquet is also a Gran Reserva with more than 42 months of aging

In the Wine Advocate's Penedes report from the end of September 2022, LUIS GUTIÉRREZ writes : "...To me, Mestres is the top quality producer in Cava, and they are somehow specializing in long aging and larger format bottles (magnums and larger) They are aiming at a segment of the market that has been neglected by the appellation: they look for drinkers of high-quality Champagne rather than trying to compete with Prosecco. To me, they are the best Cava producer today, with a great balance between acidity, oxidation and bubbles"
91+/100 Parker with a price indication of only 80 dollars!! and ends his review with: .....I like this very much"

100% of the sparkling wines from Mestres are aged in the bottle under a cork, so 2 natural corks are used for aging. Mestres is a very traditional Cava producer and is compared in style to the "López de Heredia & Tondonia" among the Cavas. This is a so-called Vintage Cava, which means that it is produced from a single year and only in the good years.

FACT: Mestres has always printed the date of disgorgement on the label and Metres is one of the few houses that opts for traditional aging methods and is the godfather of "Long Aged Cava". Under the Appendix tab you can find an article by Jancis Robinson with a song of praise about these great Cavas which have a level that most top champagne houses cannot match.

ABOUT MESTRES

The MESTRES family has been documented in Sant Sadurní d'Anoia since 1312 as owners of vineyards and also as traders of grains and wines. The family has been connected to the wine world for 29 generations. At that time, the date of 1312 was taken as the year of the creation of the MESTRES vineyards.

During Christmas 1928, the first bottle of Cava MESTRES was released, which Josep Mestres Manobens produced with grapes from the 1925 vintage. From this date, the family specialized in the production of sparkling wines with a very long maturation made according to the champagne method, namely the traditional method. From that moment on, they focused solely on high quality and MESTRES grew into a reference and benchmark for top cavas. Josep Mestres Manobens is the one who started using a high-quality base wine to make a Cava using a 'champagne' (method 'champenoise') without adding a sugar liquid (this is used for the extra fermentation by most houses), which he called "Visol" ((WINE ON IT'S OWN). At Mestres they only work with wine and no additives. This is how the first Brut Nature was born and has been registered in the Patent and Trademark office since 1948. Mestres are therefore the parents of Brut Nature. Today, the 29th generation of the MESTRES family follows the path of their predecessors and maintains that restless and enterprising spirit that characterized the MESTRES family, a winery with seven centuries of history.