Tasting Notes: This is a blisteringly clean, fascinating wine–fermented, but not aged in oak. The result is a touch of rotundity to balance the natural, searing focus achieved in Priorat. With notes of grenadine, pomegranate, soy, blood orange, and pencil lead, this wine is one of the few reasonably priced wines out of Spain’s most expensive zone.
| Cataluña, España. (Priorat) 4 hectares. |
Black slate and quartzite (mica) soil. | ||
| Parmí. (PAHR-mee) |
Traditional bush pruning. 1,000 vines/hectare. .3-.6 bottle/plant yield. |
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| Michele Riva. (me-shel-lay REE-vah) |
Maceration and fermentation in Inox tanks and oak vats. | ||
| 80% Garnacha, 20% Cariñena. |
2nd passage Slavonian oak. | ||
| 3.4 grams per liter. | 12 months in the barrel. 4 months in the bottle. |
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| 5.4 grams per liter. | 400 cases. | ||
| 14.0% by volume. | Pork-loin with a balsamic reduction, cave-aged gorgonzola, and wild game. |