Raventos i Blanc Textures de Pedra Blanc de Noirs 2021
£33.75
The wine
Golden salmon in colour, with an extremely aromatic nose of strawberries, pear and peach.
Textures de Pedra is a Blanc de Noirs, white wine made from black grapes, here the Catalan natives Sumoll and Bastard Negre, both rescued from near-extinction. In 2012 the family left the Cava DO altogether, judging it too loose to mean anything, and now bottle under Conca del Riu Anoia, a designation of their own making that requires estate-grown fruit, biodynamic farming and longer ageing than Cava demands.
The producer
Raventós i Blanc
View all Raventós i Blanc winesRaventos i Blanc is a pioneering Catalan sparkling wine estate with an extraordinary heritage, the family having made wine here since the sixteenth century and produced Spain first ever bottle of Cava. In a bold move, they left the Cava appellation to champion their own terroir-focused identity.
Farming biodynamically on their historic estate in the Conca del Riu Anoia, they work the native trio of Xarel-lo, Macabeo and Parellada, plus rare local varieties, on distinctive limestone soils. Every wine is a single-estate, traditional-method sparkling of real integrity.
The range runs from the fresh Blanc de Blancs and pretty De Nit rose to the more complex single-estate De la Finca and the fascinating native-grape Textures de Pedra, each pure, dry and expressive.
Authentic, characterful and superb value, Raventos i Blanc makes some of the finest traditional-method sparkling wine in Spain, on its own singular terms.
