Winery VallformosaClaudia Parellada - Muscat
White wine
This wine generally goes well with spicy food and sweet desserts.
Food and wine pairings with Claudia Parellada - Muscat
Pairings that work perfectly with Claudia Parellada - Muscat
Original food and wine pairings with Claudia Parellada - Muscat
The Claudia Parellada - Muscat of Winery Vallformosa matches generally quite well with dishes of spicy food or sweet desserts such as recipes of coconut chicken curry in thermomix or the coughing cat's apple crumble.
Discover the grape variety: Parellada
Lively, elegant whites with finely chiselled acidity and a light palate, with aromas of lemon, green apple, white flowers, fresh herbs and discreet mineral notes. Brings freshness and aromatic finesse to Cava DO blends (with macabeo and xarel-lo), defining the taut identity of Catalan sparkling wines. Also as light still whites in Penedès DO and Conca de Barberà DO. Native Catalan variety grown at altitude.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Claudia Parellada - Muscat from Winery Vallformosa are 2015, 2013, 0
Informations about the Winery Vallformosa
The Winery Vallformosa is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 81 wines for sale in the of Penedès to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Penedès
Historic cradle of Cava (95% of Spanish output, centred on Sant Sadurní d'Anoia): traditional-method sparklers, convivial and brioche-like. Indigenous trilogy: signature Xarel-lo (body, herbaceous and almondy notes), Macabeo (apple, freshness), Parellada (floral elegance). Still wines ~80% white from the same grapes, straight and accessible. Also sunny Garnacha, Cabernet and Pinot Noir.
The wine region of Catalogne
Cradle of Cava (~95% of Spanish output, traditional method): Macabeo, Xarel-lo, Parellada trilogy, fine fruity bubble. Quality peak in Priorat DOCa: dense, mineral reds on llicorella (schist), old-vine Garnacha and Cariñena with black fruit, garrigue notes, firm tannins. Also Penedès, fleshy Montsant, sunny Empordà, Costers del Segre. Mediterranean.
The word of the wine: Licking
Operation consisting in sanitizing a barrel by introducing a wick of ignited sulphur which produces a release of sulphurous gas.
