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Date Printed: 11/25/2009
Pasanau Germans Ceps Nous Priorat 2005
Pasanau Germans Ceps Nous Priorat 2005

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The Wine Advocate rating: 91 points
PRICE ON 11/25/2009: $21.99

ratings pedigree (past vintages):
2006 The Wine Advocate rating: 92 points
2003 International Wine Cellar rating: 91 points

Winemaker's Notes:

 Garnacha, Merlot, Mazuelo and Syrah, including fruit from Pasanau's youngest vines in La Morera. Aged in third- and fourth-year American and French oak from three to six months according to variety. Impressively concentrated, round and elegant, the succulent 2005 vintage follows an enormously successful 2003 debut.

"The 2005 Pasanau Ceps Nous is produced from the estate's youngest vines. Purple-colored, it exhibits a fragrant bouquet of smoked meat, lead pencil, blueberry, blackberry, and licorice. Full-bodied, the wine is layered and packed with mouth-filling black fruits intertwined with ripe tannins. This hedonistically-styled wine can be drunk now and over the next 6-8 years."
-The Wine Advocate

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About Pasanau Germans:

 The Pasanau family are perennial growers in Priorat, with vineyards located in the highest municipality of the region, literally skirting the sheer rock wall of the Sierra de Montscant, which forms the Priorat's viticulture boundary to its north and west.

At over 2,400 feet, Pasanau's "Finca La Planeta" dominates the regional landscape and experiences Priorat's widest daily temperature variation. This helps to retain freshness in the concentrated, late-harvested grapes, resulting in a uniquely tight-knit, albeit typically powerful Priorat style. The long, arid growing season, as elsewhere in Priorat, severely limits yields while packing the fruit with mineral extract and complexity.