2015 Mestres Visol Gran Reserva Brut Nature

The Visol Gran Reserva is the first cava in history without added sugar after disgorge (Brut Nature - 1945 - Josep Mestres Manobens - the patent holder of the term Brut Nature). In the glass, the Visol has a beautiful golden color with green reflections. The perlage is great with fine very nicely integrated bubbles that develop in the glass. On the nose, this is a very elegant cava that reveals aromas similar to barrique aging: toasted bread, dried fruit, pastries with a very structured mouthfeel. Very fresh and mature fruit, without tannin and astringent flavors often present in many cavas aged in barriques. This is a so-called Vintage Cava, which means that it is produced from 1 single year and then only in the good years. This Gran Reserva is from the 2015 and was only released mid 2022 - Long Aged we call this!

Drink the wine between 8-15ºC and Mestres advice is to drink it even around 14-15 degrees. The Visol Gran Reserva Brut Nature is a blend of Macabeu (35%) Xarel·lo (45%) Parellada (20%) coming from vineyards planted more than 50 years ago. Also with this Visol two corks are used for each bottle to make the cava. The base wine is fermented and aged in chestnut barriques on its lees for 6 months. The second fermentation in the bottle is completed in contact with the first 100% natural cork, in a horizontal position for more than 60 months in the traditional bottle again on its lees. After the disgorgement (manual process of removing the dead yeast cells) the second cork and the accompanying plaque are placed in the bottle.

GOOD 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 method and is the godfather in "Long Aged Cava". Under the tab Attachment you can find an article by Jancis Robinson with a hymn to these great Cavas which are at a level that most top champagne houses cannot match.In the Penedes report of the Wine Advocate at 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"

FACT: In the Tab: Appendix you will find the official fact sheet of this fine wine. We will automatically send it to you when you order this wine. The wine is in our conditioned Wine Warehouse and if you come to pick up the wine you will also receive a nice discount. We are almost next to the national road with plenty of parking space. Click here for address.

ABOUT MESTRES

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

During the Christmas of 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 aging made according to the champagne way, namely the traditional method. From that moment on, they have 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 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 is registered in the Patent and Trademark office since 1948. Mestres are thus the parents of Brut Nature Today, the 29th generation of the MESTRES family follow the path of their predecessors and maintain 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 tradition and respect a philosophy of unique elaboration, taking the name MESTRES and the word CAVA to excellence. Mestres is the living history of Cava. Today, MESTRES Cavas all have very high ratings. One hundred percent of the sparkling wines from Mestres are bottle-aged under cork. Mestres is a very traditional Cava producer and has been compared in style to the "López de Heredia & Tondonia" of Cavas.