Pasanau Priorat Ceps Nous 2022 NO20230705 and refreshingly unpolished—in the best

and refreshingly unpolished—in the best way

Classically styled NV Brut from Eperney

Founded in 1888

Francois Chidaine has spent a career arguing that Montlouis

Estate Cava made with actual conviction

Pasanau Priorat Ceps Nous 2022 NO20230705 and refreshingly unpolished—in the bestPriorat has a reputation for wines you buy now and open when your kids graduate. Ceps Nous is the exception, and it's honest about it the name means "new vines" in Catalan, a reference to the parcels the Pasanau family planted in 2000. The fruit comes from La Morera de Montsant, the highest village in Priorat, where vineyards sit at 2,300 feet against the rock wall of the Serra de Montsant and swing hard between hot days and cold nights. That altitude