Winemaker Notes
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2010 Cims del Montsant, a blend of 65% old vine Garnacha and 35% Carinena aged in French barriques for five months, comes from a different vineyard than the "Roure." It has a lifted, very pretty, quite floral bouquet of bright red fruit, strawberry pastille and blood orange that is sensual and feminine. The palate is medium-bodied with a firm backbone, good depth of fruit with mulberry and dark plum flavours towards the focused finish. This would probably benefit from another year in bottle. Drink 2013-2018.
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.