Winemaker Notes
Espectacle Montsant is an intense red color with bluish tints showing its youth. This wine offers notes of blackberries and very ripe plums this is surrounded by a background of fig bread. A spicy bouquet appears later to show the floral reminiscences of roses and orange blossom so characteristic of this unique wine. Its tannins caress the palate and covers it with fruitiness. Its aromatic richness appears immediately and increases after its passage through the mouth leaving us a very long finish.
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
2017 was a warm and dry vintage, and the 2017 Espectacle del Montsant is a ripe and heady Garnacha at 15.5% alcohol from the spectacular vineyard in the village of La Figuera at 600 meters in altitude. The grapes are kept in cool storage for 24 hours before being sorted and destemmed to be fermented in oak vats with indigenous yeasts. The wine matured in a 4,000-liter French oak vat for some 15 months. This is ripe and heady à la Châteauneuf, spirity, open and aromatic, with notes of soy sauce and decayed violets, a little decadent. Despite having less alcohol than the 2018, the aromatic and gustative profile is different, and the balance is at a different point. It has a richness on the palate that I like very much, with deep flavors and a long, Mediterranean finish full of aromatic herbs. 5,000 bottles produced. 96+
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Wine Spectator
Beautifully perfumed with rose petal and potpourri aromas that give way to wild raspberry and currant notes, flanked with anise, mineral and wild herb elements. Shows complexity and grace.
Grenache thrives in any warm, Mediterranean climate where ample sunlight allows its clusters to achieve full phenolic ripeness. While Grenache's birthplace is Spain (there called Garnacha), today it is more recognized as the key player in the red blends of the Southern Rhône, namely Châteauneuf-du-Pape, Côtes du Rhône and its villages. Somm Secret—The Italian island of Sardinia produces bold, rustic, single varietal Grenache (there called Cannonau). California, Washington and Australia have achieved found success with Grenache, both flying solo and in blends.
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