Francesc Sanchez Bas Montsalvat 2001
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Vintage
2001
Size
750ML
Features
Collectible
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Winemaker Notes
"The 2001 Montsalvat is a gargantuan effort composed of 70% Carinena from 70- to 80-year-old vines and 30% Garnacha of the same age with yields of less than a ton per acre. The wine was aged 16 months in new French oak and bottled unfined and unfiltered. The color is a nearly black/purple with a huge nose of marzipan, mineral, vanilla, and wild blue and blackberries. Full-bodied, the wine has an untamed, rustic feel on the palate with layered, opulent blue and black fruits as well as a balsamic note, and a splendid integration of oak, acid, and tannins. Give this wine a few years in bottle for further evolution and then drink it over the next 10-15 years. Like most of the stars in Priorat, Francesc Sanchez Bas, an agricultural engineer, only started his estate as recently as 1996. All the grapes come from vineyards owned by Bas and are made by Roser Amoros." - Wine Advocate
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- Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
Priorat, the steep and mineral rich mountain enclave west of Tarragona, is the land of Garnacha (Grenache) and Cariñena (Carignan). Francesc Sanchez Bas is an agricultural engineer who certifies organic viticultural practices for the Spanish government and teaches agriculture at the University of Tarragona. He owns the vineyards that formerly supplied old-vine grapes to the winery Fra Fulco. In 1996, he built his own miniscule winery in the cellar of his house in the village of La Vilella Alta and began producing his own wine made by the talented Roser Amoros.
MNC10472F_2001 Item# 91481