30 minutes in decanter. This is where you are hoping for when you open a bottle. Not just a good wine, but a wine that triggers all your taste buds and leads to a "emotional" feeling. The complete wine, leading you from the dark fruit via earthiness supported by freshness by spices and good acids to a mouth filling sensation followed by great length. Heaven.
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What a treat. Beautiful consentration of fruit combined with secondary aromas. So complex, smooth and just magnificent. No sediment. Came together aftee 15-30 minutes in the glass. This is heaven!
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Last bottle, and it was a great one. Now perfectly mature, with very refined tannins, typical minerals, and moderate sour cherry acidity. Showing much more elegance than in the past.
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Really impressive. First the color looks like it's a 5 year old bottle. The nose has tertiary hints but it is fresh and welcoming. On the palate, everything is in sync. Great volume, density, structure, superb acidity. Dark fruited but very bright. Long, caressing finish. One of the best bottles I've had from the region. Time has helped, for sure. At it's peak but it should linger, provided it is properly stored.
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There's still a lot going on in this very lively 21 year-old wine. Much darker and denser than I expected with huge fruit flavors, excellent acidity, mild tannin and a big dose of oak & smoke in the background.
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Earthy, medicinal cherry, . Rich mouthfeel, spicy, mature tannins, mineral, balsamic. Very nice wine, with plenty of character and complexity, but I find myself wishing for a little more charm.
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Slow ox for 5 hours. Initially leather, then fruit started to emerge. Blackberry, black plums. Very flowery after a few hours. Got savoury towards the end. Lots of sediment in the last tenth of the bottle. Decant for sediment in a narrow carafe but not to give air as it's nice to see the wine evolve gently. Perfect match for a Galician beef bone in sirloin served with truffled mashed potatoes and chestnuts with caramelized shallots.
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Initially just decanted: Leather, cedar wood on the nose. Surprisingly fresh and primary on the palate given the age, black fruit, silky, rather full. Leathery on the finish. With time to breathe (~1hr): Less leather, better balance, more expressive nose. Some smoky meat. Still rather simple though. 87-89.
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Similar notes as our 2017 tasting. Black cherries, blackberries, black currants, plums, licorice, earthiness, and hints of floral. Full bodied and well balanced, the 2000 Clos Mogador is still performing well. It's a rich wine with a long smooth finish.
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Wow, loads of leather, gamey, sandalwood, very tertiary, delicious!! Super silky, loads of ripe tannin, strawberries, lenght of 30 sec, still at peak with potential at 17 years of age!!
Lots of sour cherry coming through with quite a bit of acid on the finish. Not my favorite style here, but a nice wine. Probably needs more air than I gave it.
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Black cherries, blackberries, licorice, earthiness, and mint in the nose. A well balanced wine, flavor very much like the nose. Bordeaux in style with a long smooth finish
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- Violet color with medium forming legs. It's in total harmony with a medium/full body. Satin-Like texture with a long finish - Magnificent, like all Clos Mogador we've had before. Lovely mouth feel, great fruit concentration and vent long finish. Just enough acidity and very gentle tannins.
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Perhaps the best Spaniard I have ever had. ('62 Gran Coronas was pretty damn good though.) Gorgeous medium ruby. Lovely legs. The nose on this is very special. Very precise red fruit aromas, fresh, complex, lovely, focused. Sublime. Cherry. All tannins resolved, yet still full-bodied, rich, fairly thick, with a clipped but fine finish. Maybe a little one-dimensional, but flavory and enjoyable. This was popped and poured, and great right out of the gate. 4-14-16-9: 93/100.
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Tasted blind. Smells like Priorat. Licorice, berry, ozone, intense spice. Ripe and juicy but clean and delineated. Piercing clove character, tough tannin almost lend a carbon aspect. Some alcohol too. I actually thought this was my 2003 Mogador I had volunteered for sacrifice.
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Still pretty tannic and not very evolved, but juicy acidity highlights the dense dark fruits, and pronounced menthol and mineral aromas never dissipate. Still needs some time.
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Decanted for 2.5 hours. Somewhat closed nose that really did not express itself until 1 hour after started drinking. Good structure, but still relatively young (very few secondary characteristics). Try again in 3 years.
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Broke out the 98, 99, 00 ad 01 vintages of this wine, and I have to say it was the most disappointing vertical I've ever tasted. None of these wines showed well. All were on some level bitter and tannic without the wonderful fruit and power I have experienced in prior tastings of these wines.
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Fantastic bottle, fresh, and just starting to get into secondary development. Dark fruit, complex, great balance and finish laden with length and old vines minerality. Got better after several hrs decant. A long term player.
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Drinking beautifully right now! Opened the bottle for three hours before dinner, poured one ounce in a glass and three hours later compared it to the bottle pour, and the bottle pour is much more expressive!
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Beautiful mature priorat with a nose of cedar, dark cherries, sandalwood, hint of volatile acidity... Loads of ripe red cherries, nice ripe tannins from the Cabernet
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Very good. Earhy tones, that are similar to a typical Barolo without the truffel... Silky tannins, drinking well now, but should drink well another five years.
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14.5% alcohol. not decanted. 40% grenache, 35% cabernet, 20% syrah, 5% merlot/mourvedre/pv. double blind to the group. cherry and tannins. could do with some prep air. mildly rustic. not awful, but not a great showing. one taster felt it was oxidized/over the hill. i'm not on board with that opinion, yet clearly below performance in 9/08.
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Districts and Producers in Spain (My House): Some perfume – in a good way, lots of dark fruit, spicy, dark chocolate; similar in the mouth, some alcohol shining through at the end. Good wine, but a bit too massive for my taste.
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Stony licorice scents over pure plum and currant and raspberry on the nose. Even with 11 years on it, there's still an amazing purity of fruit on the palate (black raspberry and more plum). The finish is where it shines though, with a bright but dense attack of fruit, anise, and stony minerals. Love it, and I'd guess it has a long and illustrious future.
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deep dark core, red rim, no brick. wonderful bright violets and red berries. licorice, sweet and long, very impressive, no age. deeply flavoured, very rich, plummy, licorice, anise, black fruits, blueberry jam lingers, lovely, sweet and dark.
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Tasted blind. Dark, big, broad, saturating. Soy, smoke, incense, mineral nose with some unusual funk. Great spice and structure. Silky dark fruit finish. Very good but emerging TCA taint with air.
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This is an excellent wine. Drinking very well tonight. I love the smell of the rocks where this wine is grown. Still very dark red. Intense taste of red fruiits, firm tannins with balancing acidity. Long finish. Terrific minerality to complement the fruit. This will hold for several years to come.
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The nose had aromas of dark fruits, and a spicy coffee note. The nose was pretty cool, but I didn't think the palate was quite a match. The palate had flavors of redder fruits, mostly raspberry, with some accompanying flavors of brown spices and oak. This was my first tasting of a Priorat, but the others in the group were much more familiar with the appellation. It was a lighter bodied wine than most of the others we tasted this evening, and both of the other tasters were a little disappointed in this showing. This wasn't a wow wine for me either.
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Pretty enjoyable wine. Modern yet rustic. Good cab notes especially. Did not have detailed notes (basically dark fruit, some floral notes), and wish I could have spent more time with it, but certainly a well done effort, making me look forward to the 2001.
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Massive deposit in bottle. Closed aromatically and on palate. After 1 hour: full sweet and broad swathe of dark fruits, vanilla, oak... on the verge of being exciting, but remains four-square. 91P
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Enjoyable but a little disappointing. Nice acidity, so the balance is more or less fine, but the long, ample fruit is a shade too ripe and monolithic, and the oak influence a bit heavy. Not a shy wine and one that demands robust food. I can't quite deem it "elegant," as others have.
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A surprisingly elegant wine with good balance--ripe but no hint of the overripe or jammy fruit flavors common in Priorat, good structure and even relatively high acidity. The spicy character and sweet tannin give this away as Priorat, but otherwise this drinks like a particularly fruit-forward St. Julien. In addition to blackcurrant and cassis, hints of coffee, some christmas spice, and the vaguest of raisin which, combined with the spice, gives a hint of Amarone/Port-like quality to the flavor profile.
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Deep and rich. High alcohol at 14.5% but well-balanced with fruit and structure so did not dominate. Fresh, black and plum fruits, with herbal and liquorice overtones. Delicious.
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14.5% alcohol. not decanted. it's astounding to me that it has been over a year since last tasting this wine. no falloff tonight, it was delicious from first sip to last. the one thing i noticed was that the cabernet component became more prominant over time. mild residual tannin and oak, but smoothing out, excellent, expressive fruit. this is a very good wine, and will seemingly pair with a huge variety of food. drink or hold.
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Not sure what is going on here. A couple of years ago this wine was off the charts with lush ripe fruit. The last 2 bottles have been very good but not near what the prior 2 were.
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Initially magnificent aroma diminshed to a kind of sweet fruitiness after 30 minutes. Very disappointing muddy taste: sweet, earthy, foresty, piney, heavy and unappealing. Massively overpriced at 40 Euros retail. 89P
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this wine started out as a major winner, and slowly declined in the glass over a couple of hours to the point that i was truly perplexed. i can't recall a wine acting this way. very strange, and i will open another bottle at the first opportunity. my score is a compromise between it's initial impression, and where it plummetted to.
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Wine battle 2 (Niels' place): Dark red. Sweet nose of blackcurrant and cassis and some herbal notes. Well-structured, full-bodied, plenty of sweet red and dark fruit. Very intense. Still very primary. I was not able to find some of the more classic priorato notes like plum, raisins and cristmas spices at this stage. Rating: 93+.
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I love this wine, a wonderful example of the complexity and fruit of a well made spanish priorat. This is a big wine with too much going on to explain, but if you have some of this wine in your cellar then count your blessings!
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Priorat Vertical / Horizontal (Rios d' Sudamerica - Chicago, IL): Full throttle nose of blackberries, minerals, spice and herbs. Concentrated and mineral-driven palate is persistent and long. Edgy fruit and dusty tannins combine for terrific balance. A seamless and big wine that is elegant with all components in synch. Top notch.
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Medium to full-bodied wine that is dark magenta in color. On the nose, black berry fruit, vanilla oak, and floral notes. On the palate, cassis, chocolate, and vanilla on an extremely long 40+ second finish. Big, sweet tannins and a bright acidity here...just awesome!
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Seattle Tasting Group does Priorat (Bellevue, WA): Soaring notes of raspberry, a hint of coffee, smoke and briar. The oak sticks out more on this vintage, but amazingly this is even more concentrated than the 1999.
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14.5% abv, Grenache, Cab Sauv, Syrah, Carignan. A very dark ruby with a purple core, almost fully opaque. Little to no sediment. 2 hrs air before drinking. This was excellent. An immense and sexy nose dominated by smoky blueberries and desert rain (a clean cool dusty scent) with cedar, black fruits, vanilla and perhaps some cardamom thrown in. Totally lush and exotic nose, delightful and seductive - reminded me to some degree of a Cab Franc. Palate follows through beautifully - lush and integrated and actually not as full bodied or glycerin laden as I had expected (that is a good thing for me). Low acidity and loads of sweet ripe tannins. The nose outperformed my expectations, the palate met them, and unfortunately the finish fell mildly short of them -- pleasantly dusty finish but not as long, lively or full as I had hoped for.
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Colour saturated red/purple. The nose is packed with fruit, raspberries, cherries, plums, prunes, tobacco, eucalyptus - open and ready for bisiness. On the palate very sweet and the structure/tannins are totally hidden behind the fruit. Wonder if this has the potential to last? Nevertheless, this is a pleasure to drink now - on its own. Not a lot of complexity currently though. Will this part improve?
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Dad's 55th Birthday Redux at The French Room: A better showing for this wine - more accessible - though I think it may have been damaged from looking at the cork. Reminds me of what a Margaux wants to be. Not new world, but showing that type of ripeness. Minerals, smoke, chcolate, black fruit. Full-bodied and quite delicious. Dad described it as the best Spanish wine he has ever had.
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($70) Valentines' Day at Lola: A wow wine. Decanted about 40 minutes while we enjoyed the Macon Villages. Toasty charred oak and minerals on the nose. Tar, espresso. Rich fruit that is slightly tight. Tobacco leaf. This wine screams "Cabernet" at me, but Van Roberts indicated it was a blend that included Grenache and even maybe some Pinot Noir.
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Blue-ish red colour. Scents of rum, molasses, yeast, and toasty oak. Brilliant density with a great core of ripe fruit. Excellent complexity and good precision and definition for a wine of this size. The flavours ranged from dark chocolate to meat - from tobacco to raisins. Initially I had guessed 2000 Bordeaux on this. Great harmony and balance on the long, delicious finish.
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Deep dark red in color (very dark!). Splendid sweet aromas of plums, blackberries, wild fruits and a touch of pepper. Full body, with massive concentrated flavors of ripe grapes, prunes, vanilla and wild fruits. In a blind tasting, I would have a hard time identifying this wine as a 2000 vintage. It seems a touch more approachable than the 1999 I had a while ago, maybe due to the less than aggressive tannins. Lovely, solid balance, with very nice acidity and good tannins – both at the needed and right level to mature. Oak was a little too noticeable now, but will probably soften with more cellar time. To be 100% honest, though this is a very tasty wine, it did seem a little too “fruity” to me. With that said, I am sure it will clam down in a few years. If I were to choose the 99 or 2000 for future cellaring, I would definitely go with the 99. It just seemed better structured overall and less “in your face” if you know what I mean. Actually, the 99 is more elegant as well. Overall, a tasty wine, that definitely needs a few more time to mature and develop.
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1/8/2023 - maaike2 wrote: 95 Points
30 minutes in decanter. This is where you are hoping for when you open a bottle. Not just a good wine, but a wine that triggers all your taste buds and leads to a "emotional" feeling. The complete wine, leading you from the dark fruit via earthiness supported by freshness by spices and good acids to a mouth filling sensation followed by great length. Heaven.
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7/12/2022 - TomEndresplass wrote: 96 Points
What a treat. Beautiful consentration of fruit combined with secondary aromas. So complex, smooth and just magnificent. No sediment. Came together aftee 15-30 minutes in the glass. This is heaven!
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4/24/2022 - robmatic wrote: 94 Points
Last bottle, and it was a great one. Now perfectly mature, with very refined tannins, typical minerals, and moderate sour cherry acidity. Showing much more elegance than in the past.
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3/13/2022 - bobvictor Likes this wine: 94 Points
Rich, dense, silky. Bursting with fruit, youthful. Great showing
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1/28/2022 - DoubleMagnum Likes this wine: 95 Points
Really impressive. First the color looks like it's a 5 year old bottle. The nose has tertiary hints but it is fresh and welcoming. On the palate, everything is in sync. Great volume, density, structure, superb acidity. Dark fruited but very bright. Long, caressing finish. One of the best bottles I've had from the region. Time has helped, for sure. At it's peak but it should linger, provided it is properly stored.
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12/13/2021 - maaike2 wrote: 94 Points
Wow, this is far beyond expectation. kicking and alive, power, fruit, round, rich and tension, lively tannins, superb, probably at its peak?
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12/6/2021 - Eric wrote:
CT Offsite: Day 1 Tasting: Mmm, wild bramble and iron on a deep, dark palate. Surprisingly persistent tannins, dark, expressive, licorice and soil.
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7/25/2021 - Sanlucar Likes this wine: 92 Points
There's still a lot going on in this very lively 21 year-old wine. Much darker and denser than I expected with huge fruit flavors, excellent acidity, mild tannin and a big dose of oak & smoke in the background.
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12/27/2020 - robmatic wrote: 91 Points
Earthy, medicinal cherry, . Rich mouthfeel, spicy, mature tannins, mineral, balsamic. Very nice wine, with plenty of character and complexity, but I find myself wishing for a little more charm.
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9/10/2020 - jan erik wrote: 93 Points
Smashing just now!
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12/25/2019 - Yassine23 Likes this wine:
Slow ox for 5 hours. Initially leather, then fruit started to emerge. Blackberry, black plums. Very flowery after a few hours. Got savoury towards the end. Lots of sediment in the last tenth of the bottle. Decant for sediment in a narrow carafe but not to give air as it's nice to see the wine evolve gently. Perfect match for a Galician beef bone in sirloin served with truffled mashed potatoes and chestnuts with caramelized shallots.
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11/24/2019 - ZMAng Likes this wine: 89 Points
Initially just decanted: Leather, cedar wood on the nose. Surprisingly fresh and primary on the palate given the age, black fruit, silky, rather full. Leathery on the finish.
With time to breathe (~1hr): Less leather, better balance, more expressive nose. Some smoky meat. Still rather simple though. 87-89.
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5/4/2019 - buckeye76 Likes this wine: 94 Points
Similar notes as our 2017 tasting. Black cherries, blackberries, black currants, plums, licorice, earthiness, and hints of floral. Full bodied and well balanced, the 2000 Clos Mogador is still performing well. It's a rich wine with a long smooth finish.
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9/8/2018 - Ravi Deshpande Likes this wine: 92 Points
Maturing but not over the hill. While other reviews noted its leathery Spanish character, I saw none of it - it was bright and modern tasting.
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12/3/2017 - Philippe_C wrote: 95 Points
Wow, loads of leather, gamey, sandalwood, very tertiary, delicious!! Super silky, loads of ripe tannin, strawberries, lenght of 30 sec, still at peak with potential at 17 years of age!!
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6/26/2017 - joshabramson wrote: 91 Points
Lots of sour cherry coming through with quite a bit of acid on the finish. Not my favorite style here, but a nice wine. Probably needs more air than I gave it.
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3/3/2017 - buckeye76 Likes this wine: 94 Points
Black cherries, blackberries, licorice, earthiness, and mint in the nose. A well balanced wine, flavor very much like the nose. Bordeaux in style with a long smooth finish
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12/24/2016 - peter.mancell@mfg.com.au wrote: 94 Points
- Violet color with medium forming legs. It's in total harmony with a medium/full body. Satin-Like texture with a long finish - Magnificent, like all Clos Mogador we've had before.
Lovely mouth feel, great fruit concentration and vent long finish.
Just enough acidity and very gentle tannins.
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9/25/2015 - budman Likes this wine: 93 Points
Continues to improve!!
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7/15/2015 - MicklethePickle wrote: 93 Points
Perhaps the best Spaniard I have ever had. ('62 Gran Coronas was pretty damn good though.) Gorgeous medium ruby. Lovely legs. The nose on this is very special. Very precise red fruit aromas, fresh, complex, lovely, focused. Sublime. Cherry. All tannins resolved, yet still full-bodied, rich, fairly thick, with a clipped but fine finish. Maybe a little one-dimensional, but flavory and enjoyable. This was popped and poured, and great right out of the gate. 4-14-16-9: 93/100.
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6/10/2015 - andtheodor wrote: 93 Points
Tasted blind. Smells like Priorat. Licorice, berry, ozone, intense spice. Ripe and juicy but clean and delineated. Piercing clove character, tough tannin almost lend a carbon aspect. Some alcohol too. I actually thought this was my 2003 Mogador I had volunteered for sacrifice.
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6/6/2015 - robmatic wrote: 91 Points
Still pretty tannic and not very evolved, but juicy acidity highlights the dense dark fruits, and pronounced menthol and mineral aromas never dissipate. Still needs some time.
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7/26/2014 - KenPlace wrote: 92 Points
Decanted for 2.5 hours. Somewhat closed nose that really did not express itself until 1 hour after started drinking. Good structure, but still relatively young (very few secondary characteristics). Try again in 3 years.
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3/8/2014 - Dough Boy Does not like this wine: 88 Points
Broke out the 98, 99, 00 ad 01 vintages of this wine, and I have to say it was the most disappointing vertical I've ever tasted. None of these wines showed well. All were on some level bitter and tannic without the wonderful fruit and power I have experienced in prior tastings of these wines.
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1/18/2014 - bon vivant wrote:
Fantastic bottle, fresh, and just starting to get into secondary development. Dark fruit, complex, great balance and finish laden with length and old vines minerality. Got better after several hrs decant. A long term player.
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11/16/2013 - TheSpanishWineGuy Likes this wine: 94 Points
Extremely well-balanced and smooth.
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10/18/2013 - hernandezt Likes this wine: 92 Points
Drinking beautifully right now! Opened the bottle for three hours before dinner, poured one ounce in a glass and three hours later compared it to the bottle pour, and the bottle pour is much more expressive!
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6/15/2013 - Philippe_C wrote: 94 Points
Beautiful mature priorat with a nose of cedar, dark cherries, sandalwood, hint of volatile acidity... Loads of ripe red cherries, nice ripe tannins from the Cabernet
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3/24/2013 - Eric wrote: 92 Points
Mmm, solid wine. Incredibly dark. Crushed berries. Tobacco. Intense acidity. Mineral finish. Very fresh. Barely evolved.
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4/14/2012 - Burre wrote: 93 Points
Very good. Earhy tones, that are similar to a typical Barolo without the truffel... Silky tannins, drinking well now, but should drink well another five years.
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10/13/2011 - jeff nowak wrote: 87 Points
14.5% alcohol. not decanted. 40% grenache, 35% cabernet, 20% syrah, 5% merlot/mourvedre/pv. double blind to the group. cherry and tannins. could do with some prep air. mildly rustic. not awful, but not a great showing. one taster felt it was oxidized/over the hill. i'm not on board with that opinion, yet clearly below performance in 9/08.
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9/16/2011 - LWI wrote: 90 Points
Districts and Producers in Spain (My House): Some perfume – in a good way, lots of dark fruit, spicy, dark chocolate; similar in the mouth, some alcohol shining through at the end. Good wine, but a bit too massive for my taste.
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7/31/2011 - gthelen wrote: 95 Points
Drank with paella dinner after a 2 hour decant. Great power and depth, which further evolved over next few hours. Should last a while. Drink or hold.
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5/16/2011 - pgm wrote: 94 Points
Stony licorice scents over pure plum and currant and raspberry on the nose. Even with 11 years on it, there's still an amazing purity of fruit on the palate (black raspberry and more plum). The finish is where it shines though, with a bright but dense attack of fruit, anise, and stony minerals. Love it, and I'd guess it has a long and illustrious future.
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4/2/2011 - Vini Ciclismo Likes this wine: 95 Points
deep dark core, red rim, no brick.
wonderful bright violets and red berries. licorice, sweet and long, very impressive, no age.
deeply flavoured, very rich, plummy, licorice, anise, black fruits, blueberry jam lingers, lovely, sweet and dark.
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2/16/2011 - andtheodor wrote: flawed
Tasted blind. Dark, big, broad, saturating. Soy, smoke, incense, mineral nose with some unusual funk. Great spice and structure. Silky dark fruit finish. Very good but emerging TCA taint with air.
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2/9/2011 - robmatic wrote:
Slightly corked but drinkable. Really great richness and texture, with excellent depth. Too bad about the taint, kinda ruined it.
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1/25/2011 - winemaker wrote: 93 Points
This is an excellent wine. Drinking very well tonight. I love the smell of the rocks where this wine is grown. Still very dark red. Intense taste of red fruiits, firm tannins with balancing acidity. Long finish. Terrific minerality to complement the fruit. This will hold for several years to come.
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4/29/2010 - last chance wrote: 88 Points
The nose had aromas of dark fruits, and a spicy coffee note. The nose was pretty cool, but I didn't think the palate was quite a match. The palate had flavors of redder fruits, mostly raspberry, with some accompanying flavors of brown spices and oak. This was my first tasting of a Priorat, but the others in the group were much more familiar with the appellation. It was a lighter bodied wine than most of the others we tasted this evening, and both of the other tasters were a little disappointed in this showing. This wasn't a wow wine for me either.
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12/13/2009 - cadamson wrote: 91 Points
Pretty enjoyable wine. Modern yet rustic. Good cab notes especially. Did not have detailed notes (basically dark fruit, some floral notes), and wish I could have spent more time with it, but certainly a well done effort, making me look forward to the 2001.
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12/10/2009 - Jack wrote: 93 Points
Just a little rustic with great fruit and depth. Even better on day 2.
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10/29/2009 - winemaker wrote: 92 Points
Delicious. Drinking well now. I think it is on its plateau.
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10/1/2009 - honest bob wrote: 91 Points
Massive deposit in bottle. Closed aromatically and on palate. After 1 hour: full sweet and broad swathe of dark fruits, vanilla, oak... on the verge of being exciting, but remains four-square. 91P
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9/12/2009 - djb wrote: 90 Points
Enjoyable but a little disappointing. Nice acidity, so the balance is more or less fine, but the long, ample fruit is a shade too ripe and monolithic, and the oak influence a bit heavy. Not a shy wine and one that demands robust food. I can't quite deem it "elegant," as others have.
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6/15/2009 - Employee500 wrote: 92 Points
A surprisingly elegant wine with good balance--ripe but no hint of the overripe or jammy fruit flavors common in Priorat, good structure and even relatively high acidity. The spicy character and sweet tannin give this away as Priorat, but otherwise this drinks like a particularly fruit-forward St. Julien. In addition to blackcurrant and cassis, hints of coffee, some christmas spice, and the vaguest of raisin which, combined with the spice, gives a hint of Amarone/Port-like quality to the flavor profile.
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2/3/2009 - WildeMeeuw wrote: 93 Points
2000 Clos Mogador Priorat (Spain, Catalunya, Priorat) (Spanje, Catalunya, Priorat) Kleur: Diep geconcentreerd robijnrood. Aroma / bouquet: Stallerig, duidelijk tertiair, mooi rijp en complex echter niet heel uitgesproken. Heel ver weg nog een vleugje mint. Smaak / Afdronk: Rijp, aangenaam zachte aanzet, droppig, zachte zuren, voldoende maar boterzachte tannines. Veel kracht en lengte. Algemeen / potentieel: Eén van de mooiste glazen. 50 + Kleur: 5 + Aroma / bouquet: 13 + Smaak / Afdronk: 17 + Algemeen / potentieel: 8 = 93/100
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1/9/2009 - millwhat wrote:
Deep and rich. High alcohol at 14.5% but well-balanced with fruit and structure so did not dominate. Fresh, black and plum fruits, with herbal and liquorice overtones. Delicious.
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12/22/2008 - Ibetian wrote: 92 Points
An impressive, elegant wine, but another year in the cellar it should be better
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9/30/2008 - jeff nowak wrote: 93 Points
14.5% alcohol. not decanted. it's astounding to me that it has been over a year since last tasting this wine. no falloff tonight, it was delicious from first sip to last. the one thing i noticed was that the cabernet component became more prominant over time. mild residual tannin and oak, but smoothing out, excellent, expressive fruit. this is a very good wine, and will seemingly pair with a huge variety of food. drink or hold.
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9/4/2008 - buckeye76 wrote: 96 Points
LOADS OF UPFRONT FRUIT, BLACKBERRIES, BLUEBERRIES, AND CURRANTS. VERY NICE COMPLEXITY AND A LONG FINISH.
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5/10/2008 - Zweder wrote: 93 Points
An easy evening with friends: A mixed set of wines. (@ PVa): Beautiful elegant and complex wine. Ink, blood, coffee, spices, black fruits, good oak. Great wine!
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3/7/2008 - budman wrote: 93 Points
This was a BIG wine. Lots of tannin, but the fruit is winning.
Probably 3-5 years from its peak drinking window.
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2/16/2008 - Jack wrote: 90 Points
Not sure what is going on here. A couple of years ago this wine was off the charts with lush ripe fruit. The last 2 bottles have been very good but not near what the prior 2 were.
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2/4/2008 - Employee500 wrote: 91 Points
Very nice, but not nearly the powerhouse that the '01 was....
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12/1/2007 - honest bob wrote: 89 Points
Initially magnificent aroma diminshed to a kind of sweet fruitiness after 30 minutes. Very disappointing muddy taste: sweet, earthy, foresty, piney, heavy and unappealing. Massively overpriced at 40 Euros retail. 89P
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10/3/2007 - Jack wrote: 91 Points
Not quite as good as prior showings but still a great wine.
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9/26/2007 - NittanyLion wrote:
WOTN-- deep dark, complex, showed up all of the other Spanish wines in our tasting
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7/4/2007 - jeff nowak wrote: 91 Points
this wine started out as a major winner, and slowly declined in the glass over a couple of hours to the point that i was truly perplexed. i can't recall a wine acting this way. very strange, and i will open another bottle at the first opportunity. my score is a compromise between it's initial impression, and where it plummetted to.
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4/20/2007 - gorm wrote: 93 Points
Wine battle 2 (Niels' place): Dark red. Sweet nose of blackcurrant and cassis and some herbal notes. Well-structured, full-bodied, plenty of sweet red and dark fruit. Very intense. Still very primary. I was not able to find some of the more classic priorato notes like plum, raisins and cristmas spices at this stage. Rating: 93+.
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12/24/2006 - torourke wrote: 94 Points
I love this wine, a wonderful example of the complexity and fruit of a well made spanish priorat. This is a big wine with too much going on to explain, but if you have some of this wine in your cellar then count your blessings!
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12/20/2006 - Nanda wrote: 95 Points
Priorat Vertical / Horizontal (Rios d' Sudamerica - Chicago, IL): Full throttle nose of blackberries, minerals, spice and herbs. Concentrated and mineral-driven palate is persistent and long. Edgy fruit and dusty tannins combine for terrific balance. A seamless and big wine that is elegant with all components in synch. Top notch.
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11/19/2006 - DFC wrote: 95 Points
Medium to full-bodied wine that is dark magenta in color. On the nose, black berry fruit, vanilla oak, and floral notes. On the palate, cassis, chocolate, and vanilla on an extremely long 40+ second finish. Big, sweet tannins and a bright acidity here...just awesome!
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11/19/2006 - Eric wrote: 95 Points
Seattle Tasting Group does Priorat (Bellevue, WA): Soaring notes of raspberry, a hint of coffee, smoke and briar. The oak sticks out more on this vintage, but amazingly this is even more concentrated than the 1999.
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10/4/2006 - mattiasjansson wrote: 93 Points
Backstreet - Spain (Backstreet Wine Salon, Phoenix): Still young. Tannic. Full-bodied. Good fruit. Long (30 sec) finish.
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7/30/2006 - pbjosh wrote: 93 Points
14.5% abv, Grenache, Cab Sauv, Syrah, Carignan. A very dark ruby with a purple core, almost fully opaque. Little to no sediment. 2 hrs air before drinking. This was excellent. An immense and sexy nose dominated by smoky blueberries and desert rain (a clean cool dusty scent) with cedar, black fruits, vanilla and perhaps some cardamom thrown in. Totally lush and exotic nose, delightful and seductive - reminded me to some degree of a Cab Franc. Palate follows through beautifully - lush and integrated and actually not as full bodied or glycerin laden as I had expected (that is a good thing for me). Low acidity and loads of sweet ripe tannins. The nose outperformed my expectations, the palate met them, and unfortunately the finish fell mildly short of them -- pleasantly dusty finish but not as long, lively or full as I had hoped for.
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1/21/2006 - Jack wrote: 94 Points
Wonderful rich and ripe fruit. Low acid. Ready to drink now. Enjoy with or without food.
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1/10/2006 - martinp wrote: 91 Points
Colour saturated red/purple. The nose is packed with fruit, raspberries, cherries, plums, prunes, tobacco, eucalyptus - open and ready for bisiness. On the palate very sweet and the structure/tannins are totally hidden behind the fruit. Wonder if this has the potential to last? Nevertheless, this is a pleasure to drink now - on its own. Not a lot of complexity currently though. Will this part improve?
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3/4/2004 - OneLastSyrah wrote:
Dad's 55th Birthday Redux at The French Room: A better showing for this wine - more accessible - though I think it may have been damaged from looking at the cork. Reminds me of what a Margaux wants to be. Not new world, but showing that type of ripeness. Minerals, smoke, chcolate, black fruit. Full-bodied and quite delicious. Dad described it as the best Spanish wine he has ever had.
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2/4/2004 - OneLastSyrah wrote:
($70) Valentines' Day at Lola: A wow wine. Decanted about 40 minutes while we enjoyed the Macon Villages. Toasty charred oak and minerals on the nose. Tar, espresso. Rich fruit that is slightly tight. Tobacco leaf. This wine screams "Cabernet" at me, but Van Roberts indicated it was a blend that included Grenache and even maybe some Pinot Noir.
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1/13/2004 - Joe Belmaati wrote: 96 Points
Blue-ish red colour. Scents of rum, molasses, yeast, and toasty oak. Brilliant density with a great core of ripe fruit. Excellent complexity and good precision and definition for a wine of this size. The flavours ranged from dark chocolate to meat - from tobacco to raisins. Initially I had guessed 2000 Bordeaux on this. Great harmony and balance on the long, delicious finish.
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1/6/2004 - Lorien wrote: 93 Points
Deep dark red in color (very dark!). Splendid sweet aromas of plums, blackberries, wild fruits and a touch of pepper. Full body, with massive concentrated flavors of ripe grapes, prunes, vanilla and wild fruits. In a blind tasting, I would have a hard time identifying this wine as a 2000 vintage. It seems a touch more approachable than the 1999 I had a while ago, maybe due to the less than aggressive tannins. Lovely, solid balance, with very nice acidity and good tannins – both at the needed and right level to mature. Oak was a little too noticeable now, but will probably soften with more cellar time. To be 100% honest, though this is a very tasty wine, it did seem a little too “fruity” to me. With that said, I am sure it will clam down in a few years. If I were to choose the 99 or 2000 for future cellaring, I would definitely go with the 99. It just seemed better structured overall and less “in your face” if you know what I mean. Actually, the 99 is more elegant as well. Overall, a tasty wine, that definitely needs a few more time to mature and develop.
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