Clos Galena 2004
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Vintage
2004
Size
750ML
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Clos Galena is an aged wine which has developed its own character during the 12 months in French and American oak barrels. Its excellent bouquet is due to the Red Garnacha, Carignane, Syrah, and Cabernet Sauvignon grape varieties used.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
Clos Galena was established just six years ago and is organically farmed. It contains a mix of old vines and new plantings. The 2004 Clos Galena raises the bar considerably. It is a blend of 40% Garnacha Negra, 20% Carinena, 20% Cabernet Sauvignon, 10% Merlot, and 10% Syrah aged 12 months in French and American oak. Opaque purple-colored, it offers a super-expressive nose of spice, grilled meat, black currants, and blueberry jam. Full-bodied, with mouth-filling fruit, this flamboyant wine is dense, fat, and layered. There is well-concealed tannin and great balance.
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Wine Spectator
Ruby-red. Exotic, floral-accented raspberry and kirsch aromas are complicated by leather, raw meat and iron; smells like a serious Graves wine. Firm red fruit flavors are braced by dusty tannins and brightened by suave acidity, which lends focus to the long, juicy finish. This offers the complexity of a Bordeaux costing twice as much.
The winery is called Domini de la Cartoixa (The Priory's domain) and as the name indicates, these lands were once owned by the Carthusian
monks of Scala Dei Priory. As well as promoting the cultivation of the vines in the Middle Ages, these monks drenched the Priorat with a spirituality which can still be felt as one walks through the old vineyards today.
The winery's vineyard in El Molar (Catalonia) is made up of eleven hectares of wine stocks which are surrounded by woods and open countryside and belong to the prestigious D.O.C. Priorat.
Every year the vines are controlled using strictly scientific criteria in order to produce ripe fruit which reflect the "terroir" and natural surroundings.
SMSGALENA_2004 Item# 130717