We often don’t know which wine to choose in a restaurant or which bottle to buy in a store or supermarket. The offer is so wide that it is very difficult to get it right unless you always choose the usual. And if you do that, you’ll miss out on a lot of jewelry. But if you like to discover, what do you do? Do you go on an adventure and risk failure, or do you go to expert advice?
If you are one of those who trusts the wisdom of others, ‘Tasting with…‘ is your place. This section of ‘Cata Mayor’, the gastronomic channel of EL PERIÓDICO and the Prensa Ibérica group, to which this newspaper belongs, hosts the recommendations from professionals in the world of wine through video tastings directed by Jordi Cotrina.
Eight months in amphora
On this occasion, the sommelier Borja Durà, from brutal barchoose Els Bassots 2021, a natural wine from the Escoda-Sanahuja winery, from the DO Conca de Barberà.
It is made only with white chenin, “very emblematic” in the winery, and is “an icon” in his establishment. “It is a variety from the Loire Valley (France) that adapts well to the soils of the Conca de Barberà and is very versatile because it is used to make a sweet or a dry one.”
In this case, recommend this dry white “very electric and very crisp” what happened eight months in amphora.
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Dura recommends it for accompany rice because it is “a very fresh wine but at the same time very deep thanks to its maceration”. “Surprising because it gives a few different scentsbut the truth is that it is very nice“, he concludes.
Do you dare to taste it?