Priorat
Tar and Roses Miro 2004
You may have seen a story about this wine in Epicure if you're in Melbourne, perhaps on theage.com if not. If not here's a quick summary: Don Lewis of Mitchelton fame and his partner, Narelle King, scored a gig making wine for Merum Priorati and in 2004 could get their hands on some fruit to [...]
Alvaro Palacios Finca Dofi 2000
The second of my Priorat auction purchases went much better. One of the problems with buying wine at auction is you never really know whats happened to it before it got to the auction house. I've had good luck so far and have usually picked up very well stored bottles. While there is still a [...]
Clos Mogador 1996
I picked up this wine and a bottle of 2000 Finca Dofi from auction to see how they were looking and to test the theory that these wines from Priorat can age well and develop additional complexity. While there is quite a bit of old vine material in the region, modern methods have only been [...]
Las Terraseas 2005
There has been a bit of discussion on some of the wine forum about the cellaring potential of the wines from Priorat lately. The main question is do they gain complexity? or does the fruit just fade and they are better drunk young?. They seem to have everything in place for a long life, but [...]
Clos Mogador 2004
We're doing a spot of renovating at Casa Tinto y Blanco at the moment, so I haven't been drinking much this week. We've had a couple of disasters as well, so I decided to open something to wash away the past week with. And what better than a 2004 Priorat to help you forget the [...]
Embruix de Vall Llach 2004
Some more 2004 Priorat. This one is from Cellar Vall Llach, at the bottom end of their quality tree. These guys seem to be on fire at the moment, their 2002 and 2003 wines were very well received and they seem to at the very top of the heap for the 2004 vintage as well.
Embruix [...]
Alvaro Palacios Finca Dofi 2004
I've been busy writing up some note from an excellent tasting last week, but got distracted and started writing a note on this wine.
Priorat can be a hard sell at times, mainly due to the cost. There are a number of factors that influence the cost of such a wine. Just about everything here must be [...]
Alvaro Palacios Les Terrasses 2004
To celebrate the ability to taste and smell again, I double decanted a couple of bottles and headed down to La Luna in Carlton for lunch with the lads yesterday.
This is a regional blend from Alvaro Palacios in Priorat, all of the grapes are bought in and its rumoured that he pays 3 times [...]
Clos Mogador 2003
Its about time I had a look at this wine, the lads over at Winorama have had two shots at it so far.
The 2003 vintage was a tough one for Priorat, extreme heat, rain just before harvest that introduced the right conditions for a nasty case of botrytis. Still, many good wines were [...]
Cims de Porrera Priorato “Solanes” 2001
These guys are apparently one of the stalwarts of Carinena (Mazyelo in Rioja or Carignan in France) for quality wines in Priorat. This wine is a great little blend of 90% Crinaena and 10% Grenacha. I could drink Priorat wines all day, pity about the pricing…
A deep red core, browning at the edges. [...]
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