univers 2019Muchada-Léclapart - 75 cl.

Name: univers 2019 (75 cl.)
Brand: Muchada-Léclapart
SKU: 117010
Price: 28.4 EUR
Availability: OutOfStock

91 R. Parker

Biodynamic

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Region:
Andalucía

Wine estate:
Muchada-Léclapart

Assembly:
Palomino

Wine colour:
White

Alcohol content:
12,5 %

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Vinification
Biodynamics and non-interventionism explain why this wine is so pure. Fermentation and ageing for 9 to 10 months in Champagne-type tanks. Fermentation happens spontaneously. No compromise, nothing is added. The wine is aged on its lees. It is not filtered nor clarified before bottling. No sulfite either, or very little.

Storage potential
Already perfect to be drunk today, this wine will keep easily until the autumn of 2023

To serve
Important notice: Alejandro Muchada’s advice is to let the bottles rest for two weeks after delivery. Once opened, this wine evolves and becomes even more complex after a few days.

Trial analysis
The colour is pale, slightly cloudy. The complex, salty, umami aromas of Palomino combines with the minerality coming from the limestone, with hints of apricot and lemon. The saltiness comes back on the palate (we are very near to the Atlantic Ocean) and the wine gets more and more complex as it is opening in the glass. The long finish is full of character. An entry level wine, indeed! A grand wine, rather.

Reviews

R. Parker (91/100)

21/02/2024

The white 2019 Univers, a pure Palomino from 25-year-old vines, fermented in stainless steel, and they don't use Sherry butts (botas) or flor, trying to show naked wines from the variety and the soils. This is quite varietal, trying to achieve precision, finesse and cleanliness with little intervention and low sulfur, and perhaps it's more difficult in riper years. This still has a moderate 12.5% alcohol despite the year being very dry and the summer marked by the warm Levante winds, and the wine has a soft palate with volume and a sleek texture. I think this is the more varietal of the wines (save for the Moscatel one!) with intense spiciness in the shape of cloves and cumin. It matured for 11 months with lees.

Wine estate

When a "cult" winemaker from Champagne, David Léclapart, enters in a partnership with an Andalusian winemaker, Alejandro Muchada, who thinks out of the box, the result is sheer magic.
They produce dry white wines out of the Palomino grape, the traditional variety for Sherry - somewhat neglected for other types of wine.
Even us, we have been swept off our feet when we tasted their wines for the first time. They showed a quality and a complexity that we were not expecting. Original, very Atlantic in style, and very mineral too.

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