Winemaker Notes
This wine shows a deep purple to black with vivid red and a bluish edge. The aroma is of fresh red berries, Asian spices, a bouquet of mineral, anise, thyme, espresso and wild blueberry. It poses elegant structures, harmonic acidities combined with nuts. On the palate, it is juicy, buxom with dense black and blue fruits, downy and pulpy tannins and a finish with impressive lift and clarity.
Professional Ratings
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Wine & Spirits
From very old vineyards of carignan (65 percent) and grenache (15 percent), plus younger vines of syrah, all planted on warm, south-facing slopes in Montsant, this is the most ambitious cuvée from Portal del Montsant. Big, rich in liqueurish notes, generous in all its aspects, it brims with ripe and spicy flavors, with a backbone of mineral acidity that keeps everything in balance.
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