Bufadors Vinya del Rascara Brut Nature Corpinnat 2018 750ml

“Vinya del Rascarà” is pure Xarel-lo from a massal selection of Recaredo’s fabled Turo d’En Mota vineyard planted in 1999. The 1.5-hectare Rascara vineyard is situated in a prime sector of Alt Penedès, between the municipalities of Sant Sadurní d’Anoia and Torrelavit, and its limestone-rich, stone-littered soils produce Xarel-lo of intense salinity and strict acidity even in the warmest of vintages. Fermented spontaneously, with secondary fermentation initiated with still-fermenting must from the same harvest, “Vinya del Rascarà” spends a minimum of five years on its lees aging under natural cork before a manual disgorgement (without dosage, of course). Longtime Recaredo enthusiasts will recognize in the “Vinya del Rascara” a familiar elegant autolytic depth, but the fruit here is crunchier, more immediate, and more “analog”—rarely does sparkling wine feel so viscerally connected to its materials of origin while still maintaining such a layered, murmuring complexity.