Winemaker Notes
This wine's noble and healthy tannins will complement the best meat and game dishes.
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2009 Mas La Plana is one of the most (if not the most) famous Cabernet Sauvignons from Spain. From a vineyard planted between 1964 and 1969, it was aged for 18 months in new French oak barrels. It has a classy and typical nose of cedar wood, tobacco, leather, vanilla, blackberries and plums - exactly what people expect and want to find in it. The palate has some coarse tannins, which call for some more time in bottle before pulling the cork. This wine should age magnificently and for a long time. Drink 2015-2021.
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Wine Spectator
Anise, espresso and tar notes frame black currant, tobacco and mineral flavors in this firm, focused red. The tannins are prominent, but the texture is smooth and rich, with good length on the finish. Shows good concentration. Drink now through 2024.
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.