José Peñín (Peñín Guide)
“Lumière 2021: Full-bodied, fatty, complex, with refreshing acidity and evocation of chalk, wild herbs and fallow straw (99 points)”.”
James Suckling (James Suckling Guide)
«Elixir 2025 (96 points) is among the 100 best Spanish wines of 2024. A pure Moscatel de Chipiona with aromas of orange blossom and brine, as well as hints of ginger. Medium-bodied, luminous and energetic, with a delicate saline profile».
Luis Gutierrez (Robert Parker)
“Lumiere 2022 is the one with the most purity, elegance and subtlety; very good intensity, precise, clean and detailed (95+ Parker points).”
Jancis Robinson (Financial Times)
«It is tempting to wonder which wines that are being launched on the market can develop a great reputation, and even become cult wines. I would like to name the Andalusian wines of Muchada-Léclapart».»
Dan Keeling (Noble Rot, England)
«Far from modern ‘technical’ winemaking, Muchada learned his trade from the humble older winegrowers of Sanlúcar, achieving together with Leclapart his ‘Univers’ and ‘Lumière’: pure and saline wines (both in the Top five)».»
Darren Smith. Decanter (England)
«Muchada dedicates great effort to agriculture, learning from the old generation of Sanlúcar winegrowers to produce Palomino of the highest quality, which he masterfully transforms into the purest and most crystalline wines (97 points).»
Sarah Jeans Evans. Master of Wine (England)
«The advantage is that without the usual flor or solera influence you can taste the terroir... A delicately honeyed wine with drops of jasmine and a clean, saline finish.»
Goethean approach to the plant world. The basis of biodynamics
At the beginning of May, the Muchada-Léclapart team took part in a training course on the Goethean approach to the plant world led by botanist Jean Michel Florin, director of the agricultural section of the Goetheanum and organised by the biodynamic farm Entheos, in Lerin (Navarra). We share here some of them
Goethean observation and the return to the origins of biodynamic farming
Rudolf Steiner, the father of biodynamic agriculture, worked for several years in Johan Goethe's archive in Weimar, studying his scientific writings, which had not been analysed as a whole. Goethe is the great German playwright, the “German Cervantes”, but he also produced an important scientific work, based on his scientific writings.
The metamorphosis of plants
In 2022, the publishing house Atalanta published in Spain the beautiful and delicate work of Professor Gordon I. Miller, from Seattle University, who has republished The Metamorphosis of Plants, a work by the German philosopher and writer Goethe (with wonderful illustrations and photographs, by the way). In this post
