WOW!

A blend of 55% Carinena, 30% Grenache and 15% Cabernet.

Decanted about two hours.

On the nose, earthy touches of truffles, mushroom, wild berries and dried herbs, with raspberry, blackberry, overripe plum and smoke on the palate.

While an almost intense and rich wine, it still offers a balance and clean finish (non-cloying) that just separates Priorat wines from many other in my opinion.

I would hold this beauty (if you can) for a year. I attended an offline in Austin and had to buy local. Simply an outstanding wine and even a value in my opinion at $70+.

What wine+art said. Really a fine bottle of wine. I liked the acidity on the finish along with the herbal notes. It needs some time for integration but was delicious.

W+A,

Would you be interested in trying the 2001? Maybe we can partake in one on your visit to Louisville in Sept.

IW

Here is my TN from Last year

Well I had this on Valentines night in dtown Chicago and I must say that this is a WOW wine. Outside of the flagship Vall Llach this is the best Spanish red I have had to date. Gibsons was very nice in waving the corkage fee. This inky purple wine had a wild nose of violets, and perfume. THe palate was tight just before I had it decanted. After 40 minutes in the decanter the spices were flowing from back to front. The true reason why this is a great wine is in the finish. It had large amounts of blackberry, plum and ripe hand picked blueberries and blackberries. The tannins are sweet and integrated. Outstanding with my filet rubbed in garlic. Everything I hoped for and more. 95pts. Thanks Board-O for the recommendation.

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Originally posted by Italian Wino:
W+A,

Would you be interested in trying the 2001? Maybe we can partake in one on your visit to Louisville in Sept.

IW

Absolutely.

I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

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Originally posted by Board-O:
I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

Wow, me too.

Thanks for building the anticipation.

Happy to hear you enjoyed it. We tasted this when we were in Spain with Gerard and it was awesome then. We have resisted the urge to open it yet.

We had the 2003 with Gerard and thought it was outstanding. I think the 2004 is a bit better.

That is what he thinks also - we had both with him - at the time the 03 was a little better in my opinion but I think that was largely a timing issue

wine+art - I found a few bottles of this today that might have been mismarked at $34. The going price seems to be higher. Good stuff!

At $34 - I would buy every bottle they had