Winemaker Notes
Complex and mineral aromas with hydrocarbon notes. Powerful palate, balanced with a well integrated acidity that will bring to the wine a long life. Full bodied, silky, long, persistent and elegant.
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The old-vines selection of Garnacha Blanca, the 2021 Selecció was produced with grapes from eight separate plots of vines ranging from 60 to 90 years of age, on sandy "panal" (fossil dune) soils. It fermented with indigenous yeasts in stainless steel and matured in 500- and 600-liter French oak barrels and clay amphorae for eight months. It's clean, varietal, elegant and nuanced, with integrated oak and complex aromas of lees, yeasts, fruit and flowers. It has a vibrant palate that is precise and clean, with good ripeness and volume, 14.5% alcohol and great freshness that makes it very balanced and tasty. It finishes with a bitter twist.
Producing full-bodied white wines, Grenache Blanc can be unctuous and soft or floral and fresh. Some of the finest examples are terroir-driven, age-worthy wines. It is a key ingredient in white Châteauneuf-du-Pape and many white blends across southern France and NE Spain. Somm Secret—Grenache Blanc plays a key role in the vins doux naturels of Rivesaltes and a subsidiary role in those of Banyuls and Maury.
The highest wine growing zone in Spanish Cataluña, Terra Alta is south of Priorat and Montsant. Here growers are following the trends of Priorat, recovering Garnacha blanca vines for white wines and focusing on quality red blends.