Heretat Montrubi Durona 2004
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Robert
Parker
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Durona is a complex blending of red wines from the Mont Rubi estate created to satisfy the most demanding palates and offer unique sensations because of the nobility and personality of the varieties of which it is composed.
Blend: 30% Sumoll, 20% Cariñena, 20% Garnacha, 20% Syrah, 10% Merlot
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2004 Durona is composed of 30% Sumoll, 20% Garnacha, 20% Carinena, 20% Shiraz, and 10% Merlot. The wine was barrel-fermented and aged for 12 months in French oak. Deep crimson-colored, it presents a complex, earthy, spicy nose with notes of assorted blue and black fruits. Sweet, ripe, and flavorful, it reveals some elegance and very good length. Give it 2-3 years and drink it through 2015.
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James
Suckling
For more than 25 years Monrubi has created quality and exclusive quality wines of limited production, innovated production processes, technology and the varieties of grape used. Amongst other things we have been pioneers in the production of a quality home-produced Cava, the production of a Rosé Cava and the arrangement of bottles vertically in their cases.
Constantly in pursuit of quality we select the best parts of our estates of more than 300 hectares and dedicate ourselves to the conservation of the purity of the grapes, the potency of the terroir and the defence of varieties indigenous to Penedès: Sumoll, Xarel.lo Garnatxa and Samsó.
Spanish red wine is known for being bold, heady, rustic and age-worthy, Spain is truly a one-of-a-kind wine-producing nation. A great majority of the country is hot, arid and drought-ridden, and since irrigation has only been recently introduced and (controversially) accepted, viticulture has sustained—and flourished—only through a great understanding of Spain’s particular conditions. Large spacing between vines allows each enough resources to survive and as a result, the country has the most acreage under vine compared to any other country, but is usually third in production.
Of the Spanish red wines, the most planted and respected grape variety is Tempranillo, the star of Spain’s Rioja and Ribera del Duero regions. Priorat specializes in bold red blends, Jumilla has gained global recognition for its single varietal Monastrell and Utiel-Requena has garnered recent attention for its reds made of Bobal.