Early 2021 fizz

A mixed bag of sparkling wines including two(!) Bollinger RD 1976s, English fizz and an exceptional Spanish discovery. Above, the Gramona family’s farm on their biodynamic estate.

Thursday, 18 March 2021
The farm at Gramona, Catalunya

Jancis writes I’d heard of Gramona and their superior Cavas, and managed to taste a lone 16-year-old example back in 2016 courtesy of Berry Bros & Rudd, and had been intrigued by this profile of them in last summer’s writing competition, but that was the extent of my knowledge. But now, in the great Berry Bros slimming programme described yesterday in From FMV to Liberty, the agency for this producer of superlative...