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Font de le Figuera 2005

By Dave Worthington ⋅ March 24, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

A super quick note today. This is the young vines wine from these guys, Garnarcha and Carineña planted in 1998. Surprisingly, this had huge amounts of sediment, so do decant just to get rid of the muck or be very careful pouring it.

Cims de Porrera Priorato “Solanes” 2001

By Dave Worthington ⋅ June 27, 2006 ⋅ 8 comments

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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