Recaredo Turó d'en Mota 2011

2011 was again an unusual year: at the end of the winter, rain was triple the historical average, and in the summer, the lack of rain and the heat made them pick their whole crop in only 18 days. The grapes for the 2011 Turó d'en Mota were picked early, the 23rd of August, and they picked 3,866 kilos, which represents a yield of 21 hectoliters per hectare. All in all, the average temperature coincides with the historical average (15.6 degrees Celsius), and rainfall was lower, 433 liters, compared with the historical average of 528 liters. It fermented in 300-liter oak barrels and refermented in bottle, where it was kept with lees for a minimum of 12 years. This is one of the years (also 2003 and 2005) when the wines suffered dehydration, and that concentrated everything, including acidity, and the wine has a low pH of 2.96. It has a nose of bread dough and wet chalk, notes of Mediterranean herbs, even esparto grass, a little riper, with a velvety palate, textured, with very fine bubbles, balanced and fresh after 150 months in bottle with lees. 2,646 bottles produced. It was disgorged in October 2024.