In December, just before heading off to California to work on the Napa Valley report, I sat down with Marta Casas at Parés Baltà to taste though the Microcuvée series of their wines. These are wines that focus on the native varieties of the Penedès region and, as the name indicates, are made in very small quantities. You can view all the wines tasted in this Vertical Report. While Penedès will often get cast in a bad light thanks to the massive, bulk production of both DO Cava and DO […]