2008 Cava Mestres Mas Vía Millesimé Gran Reserva

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 linked to the world of wine for 29 generations. At that time, the date of 1312 was taken as the year of the foundation 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 on, the family specialized in the production of sparkling wines with a very long maturation made according to the champagne way, namely the traditional method. From that moment on, they have also only focused on high quality and MESTRES has grown into a reference and benchmark for top cavas. Josep Mestres Manobens is the one who started with a high quality base wine to make a Cava by means of 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 work only with wine and no addition. 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 in the path of their predecessors and maintains that restless and enterprising spirit that characterized the MESTRES family, a winery with seven centuries of history.

During all these years we have been able to follow the tradition and respect a philosophy of unique elaboration, bringing the name MESTRES and the word CAVA to excellence. Mestres is the living history of Cava. Today, the MESTRES Cavas all have very high ratings.

One hundred percent of the sparkling wines from Mestres are aged in the bottle under cork. Mestres is a very traditional Cava producer and is compared in style to the "López de Heredia & Tondonia" of Cavas.

The Mas Vía Gran Reserva from 2005 is a brut adjusted to about five grams of sugar, which in fact feels very integrated and in a way makes it longer aftertaste. This is aged in bottle, where it was kept for 160 months (more than 13 years!). The taste has great harmony and elegance, with balance and integrated gas. It is complex, balanced and long. Truly excellent. 2,950 bottles produced. After a maturation of no less than 160 months, this great Cava becomes available. In the glass, the Mas Vía Gran Reserva Premium is straw yellow with golden highlights. Fine bubble with great evolution in the glass. It is a very elegant cava with rich aromas. White, fresh and intense golden apple and quince. In perfect harmony with intense and complex notes of toasted bread and dried fruit thanks to its long aging and the noble wood. In the mouth it is powerful, mature, balanced and very structured, with a very good integration of the carbonic acid. Voluminous, persistent and velvety in the mouth, it ends with a very long and soft aftertaste.

We dare to take on the challenge. Put this Mestre Mas Via Gran Reserva next to a Dom Perignon and let us taste it blind. One third of the price but just as great

Drink the wine between 8-15ºC and Mestres advises to drink it at around 14-15 degrees. The Mestre Mas Via Gran Reserva is a blend of Macabeu (20%) Xarel lo (60%) Paradella (20%) coming from vineyards with selection of the oldest vines of more than 50 years old) and is only produced in the best vintages.

Also in this Mas Via two corks are used for each bottle to make the cava. The base wine is fermented and matured in chestnut barriques in on its lees for 12 months. The second fermentation in the bottle is completed in contact with the first 100% natural cork, in a horizontal position for 160 months in the traditional bottle again on its lees. After the dégorgement (manual process of removing the dead yeast cells) the second cork and the corresponding plaque are placed in the bottle.

FACT: MESTRES always has the date of disgorgement printed on the label. The 2008 was not released until 2024