2007 Celler Cal Pla Priorat Planots Vi de Vinyes Velles

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  1/21/2023 - Philou68 Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Had aged beautifully! Double decanted. Tar, dark cherry, sage and roses on the nose. Well integrated tannins, dark chocolate and licorice with a nice sweetness and spiciness in the mouth. Has another 5 years of ahead.

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  10/3/2022 - Shelley29 wrote:

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  2/20/2020 - echnaton3 Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Very dark notes, besides dark fruit also lots of dark chocolate, mocha, even tapenade and lots of spices. Very full and opulent, typical porrera and also the sweet fruit is shining through, whereby the coffee notes are still present. A little bit chewy, but also quite filling, fortunately there is a touch of slate mineral in the finish.
  Shows still youthfully, has a lot of grip.

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  2/2/2019 - forceberry wrote: 88 Points

  A 50/50 blend of Carignan and Grenache. 14% alcohol.
  
  Deep, quite opaque and somewhat developed black cherry color with a rusty, dried-blood hue. Somewhat restrained and slightly volatile nose with reticent aromas of wizened black cherries, some solvent-like ether aromas, a little bit of sunny dark fruits, light boysenberry tones, a hint of cocoa oak and a touch of prunes. The wine is very ripe, full-bodied and quite sweet-toned with rich flavors of sunny, plummy fruits, some wizened blackberries, a little bit of boysenberry, light marmaladey tones, a hint of mocha oak and a touch of dried cherry. Overall the wine isn't bold or opulent, but still there's a ton of sweet fruit here. The medium acidity feels quite modest, so the structure relies more on those firm, assertive and rather grippy tannins. The finish is grippy, quite sweet-toned and slightly volatile with quite a bit of gum-drying astringency and rich flavors of black cherries, boysenberry jam, some sweet notes of lifted VA character, a hint of licorice root and a touch of toasty oak spice.
  
  A rich, very ripe and quite sunny - almost jammy - Priorat with a slightly Musar-like volatile edge to its fruit. Overall the wine felt like a bigger, more tannic and somewhat more polished version of a warm-vintage Musar. It's a big and structured wine by all accounts, but with its slightly too ripe fruit and lack of good acidity, the wine comes across somewhat ponderous and thus lacking in energy. Although the wine isn't particularly tertiary yet, I doubt the wine will benefit much from further aging. Feels very expensive for the style at 59€.

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  10/17/2016 - Sir-Harrie wrote: 94 Points

  2h dekantiert, dunkelrote Farbe im Glas. Wuchtige Fruchtaromen nach Kirsche, Heidelbeeren, Cassis, Vanille, Röstaromen. Länger anhaltender Abgang. Wow, klasse

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