Recaredo, a family of grape growers and makers of quality sparkling wines and one of the twelve wineries that make up the Corpinnat collective brand, has become the first sparkling wine producer in Spain to be awarded 100 points by the prestigious publication Robert Parker Wine Advocate with its 2001 Recaredo Turó d’en Mota. This corpinnat, which will be released in the coming months, is also the first sparkling wine in all of Spain to obtain this score, which until now had only been achieved by nine Champagne houses: Salon, Bollinger, Louis Roederer, Krug, Jacques Selosse, Ulysse Collin, Cédric Bouchard, Egly-Ouriet and Philipponnat.

The Enoteca Turó d’en Mota de Recaredo collection was presented in October 2023 as part of the winery’s celebration of the twenty-fifth vintage from the Turó d’en Mota vineyard, an iconic plot in the panorama of Catalan viticulture. According to Ton Mata, a member of the third generation of the family, the first vintage of Turó d’en Mota de Recaredo was “the result of a fierce non-conformism” and the conviction that the sparkling wines of the Penedès could aspire to be “first-class sparkling wines that showcased the distinctive characteristics of the region in an unapologetic way”.

Enoteca Turó d’en Mota 2001 de Recaredo will be released soon in a limited edition of 150 bottles, all numbered, after being aged in the bottle for 264 months (22 years). For the Recaredo family, these limited-edition collections embody a passion for terroir craftsmanship and the ability to preserve an unshakable identity, forged through rigorous methods, hard work and patient passion.

Luis Gutiérrez, Robert Parker Wine Advocate’s official taster in Spain, says: ‘For me, Enoteca Turó d’en Mota 2001 is Spain’s best sparkling wine. On the nose, it’s complex and subtle, with abundant aromas in which the prolonged contact with the lees is evident. It also has very fine bubbles, which lend it texture and freshness, and incredible complexity and elegance. Really impressive! Bravo!’

Turó d’en Mota 2010 de Recaredo scores 98 points

Turó d’en Mota de Recaredo 2010, a corpinnat that has just been released, was awarded 98 points by taster Luis Gutiérrez, the highest score to date for a vintage of Turó d’en Mota that is not part of an enoteca collection. Of this sparkling wine, he says, ‘Having tasted the 25 vintages of Turó d’en Mota, this is one of my favourites’. Gutiérrez describes it as ‘a very balanced, subtle and elegant wine, with very small, well-integrated bubbles’.

Robert Parker Wine Advocate has also awarded excellent scores to other vintages of Recaredo’s Turó d’en Mota, including Enoteca Turó d’en Mota 2004 (97–99 points), Turó d’en Mota 2008 (97 points), Enoteca Turó d’en Mota 1999 (97 points) and Turó d’en Mota 2009 (96 points).