Winemaker Notes
Deep dense cherry color, with a touch of mahogany. Wonderfully intense bouquet typical of this vineyard: hints of cranberries, cherries and truffles, with an incense-like quality developed during aging in wood. Full, elegant and pronounced aftertaste, befitting a wine of this quality.
A perfect partner for the finest meat and game dishes.
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2003 Mas La Plana is 100% Cabernet Sauvignon from an estate vineyard in Penedes. The wine was aged for 18 months in new French oak. Purple-colored, it reveals an expressive bouquet of pain grille, scorched earth, spice box, black currant, and blackberry. Medium to full-bodied, well-balanced, and intensely flavored, it has excellent depth and length. It will evolve in the cellar for 6-8 years and drink well through 2025.
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Wine & Spirits
This classic Torres wine (the first vintage was in 1970) comes from a 71-acre vineyard near Penedès. The latest release is rich in aromas of coffee and dark chocolate with a fig detail. It is deeply flavored, with soft tannins shaped by the heat of the vintage. A generous cabernet for roast duck.
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Wine Spectator
A core of fleshy plum and currant fruit is accented by vanilla, coffee and a hint of tar. There's a slightly rustic character, but this is solid and well-integrated, with a lingering floral note on the finish. Best after 2008. 10,000 cases made.
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.