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Sparkling days at Mondovino


Yesterday and today were "Sparkling Days" at Mondovino here in Schoten were I live.

The name of the event was linked to the presence of Sergi Colet of Colet Cava, Penedes. Sergi presented all of the Cavas they they make in his bodega, some of which I (and other people like the sommelier of El Bulli restaurant) score very good. Especially the "A priori" Cava is very good according to us.

Today we also tasted the "Colet Assemblage which is a peculiar kind of Cava as it looks a little bit Rose, but is actually made like a regular white Cava (i.e. no maceration of the grapeskin with the wine). The reason that it is (in some years only) a rose Cava is that the Pinot Noir grapes get too little water in the mediteranean climate and dry into (almost) raisins. At that point in time the colour of the skin enters the inside of the grape.


Bubbles wine tasting at work ...

Wow, can't believe it has been more than 3 weeks since I put something on this blog. Probably a little bit too busy with other things I guess.

Anyway, I am back and bring some backlog of wine info I definetely want to blog about in the near future. Let's start with something which is still fresh in my mind though: yesterday evening's Wine Club in the company I work for.

Readers of this blog will surely know that we have bi-monthly meetings where we taste some wines around a certain theme (in September it was Chili+Argentina). As the year is approaching the end it was again time to do a tasting of sparkling wines.

The presentation can be found below.