2009 PEPE RAVENTOS MAS DEL SERRAL MAGNUM 1.5 LITER, CATALONIA SPAIN

This matured with the lees in bottle for no less than 100 months. The signature of this wine is the marine soils where the vines are planted and they provide very tasty wines with a saline mineral and marine personality.

The wine is from an extreme year yet manages to keep its poise and it comes through as fresh and balanced and has a long-lasting finish. This has a special sense of harmony and subtleness but there's also power and inner strength.

This is one of the greatest sparkling wines produced in Spain and it comes from a superb terroir that produces wines that age very slowly as it's fresher and younger than many wines that are three or four years older. Because there was so little wine they decided to bottle it all in magnums and there are only 849 magnums. The price given is for a magnum.