Community Tasting Notes 11

• FierceRedPanda Likes this wine: 90 points

  May 5, 2024 - As always, a bit of a velvet hammer. I’ve said it before for other vintages, but Celler Cal Pla pretty much always hits 15% on this, so if that’s not your thing, you’re not going to like this wine. But just because the ABV is a trifle high (Grenache can do that, after all), don’t go thinking this is a big, dumb, jammy brute of a wine. It most assuredly is not. You’ve just got to come prepared, that’s all.
  
  The nose does that slightly-oxidized red fruit (tomatoes, even) thing that is pretty solidly distinctive for Spanish reds. As ever, Porrera is the lushest of Priorats, and the nose here suggests that. The palate is still packed with that schisty, earthy goodness, but there’s tons of peppered red raspberry and blackberry to go around. Finish is lingering with nice tannins.
  
  Look, I’m a fan. In previous vintages, I’ve said that if you don’t like this, that’s a you problem, not a this wine problem, and that’s true again here. It may not be to everyone’s taste, but I think it’s a downright tasty example of Priorat at a very reasonable price. If people don’t like it, yay more for me? ;)

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• RKcellar Likes this wine: 89 points

  March 4, 2024 - black and purple jammy fruit while still having elegance

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• Giggs wrote: 87 points

  October 26, 2023 - It is what it is, hot/jammy Garnacha grown at altitude. The oak treatment is nice—there’s a sweet egg thing going on that makes it interesting—and good acidity and some minerality. Good but forgettable.

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• Jluedtke30 Likes this wine:

  September 6, 2023 - Very nice full flavor and well balanced

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• fdizzy Likes this wine:

  July 23, 2023 - Good. Solid wine for the price point. Nice body and fruit to balance tannins.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2019
• Type Red
• Producer Celler Cal Pla
• Varietal Grenache Blend
• Designation Black Slate
• Vineyard Porrera
• Country Spain
• Region Catalunya
• SubRegion n/a
• Appellation Priorat
• UPC Codes 8437009647097, 860001673111

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• In Cellars 121 (65%)
• Consumed 66 (35%)

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