2015 Clos Erasmus Priorat

Community Tasting Notes (14) Avg Score: 95.3 points

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  10/5/2023 - Philippe_C wrote: 99 Points

  Huge nose of salty strawberries, red cherries, intoxicating iodine, great great nose!! amazing tension and crisp red strawberries, huge mineral, zippy acidity, great great wine!!

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  5/27/2023 - Mark1npt Likes this wine: 97 Points

  So, I'm going through emails yesterday about the release of the '20 vintage of this exact wine. I'd always wanted to try this wine but had not yet had the privilege......low and behold a few hours later Gabriel shows up on our doorstep with this '15 for our dinner at London Club! Freaky, right?
  
  He said he slow ox'd it for a number of hours throughout the day. We tested it and thought it needed a brief but full decant so we gave it 30 min in the decanter while we did our 'at home tasting/nibbles' first, then back into the bottle it went for the restaurant.
  
  Opened while slightly chilled at the restaurant and decided to chill it a little further, too. This is a shimmering, classy wine. Immediately the extravagant/perfumed/floral nose grabs your attention, in fact, I think the nose is a few years ahead of the palate and should get a 98 just by itself. Even with the decant, the wine still came across as slightly tight until open for another hour at the table. So, if you have any bottles of this '15 I'd do a pretty good full decant on it, say 3 hours to start, then see where it is? The palate to me at this youthful stage was a red/dark red fruited 96 so averaging the score out to a 97 for this bottle at this time with surely more upside in coming years. Gabriel, thanks so much for bringing this beautiful wine to our dinner! What a treat!

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  5/26/2023 - gteran76 wrote: 93 Points

  I was looking for something different and special to share with our friends Mark and Carol and I select this bottle that I never had before and then neither.
  
  Opened at 9am and left inside the cellar, by 7pm while at Marks he decanted it for about 30 min and then back into the bottle to go to the Jazz place…
  
  Once there the nose showed pretty intriguing and broad while it was a bit shy, the body is medium, the acidity is bright as the sun can be, lots of tannins and the back bone to go the distance and to the next level. For me at this stage it lacks complexity, maybe this bottle wasn’t handled properly, maybe it was not decanted long enough? Not paired with the right food? Or maybe I was distracted by the nice music, good food and fun talk…
  
  Whatever it was at least we had a memorable Wine-Jazz-Night and I hope this wine gets to the full potential in some 3-5 years from now!
  
  93++ today.

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  6/10/2021 - Andybe Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Great..but the price(s)...insane.

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  1/24/2020 - Romol Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Decanted 2,5 hours. Still pretty young (as expected). I guess this needs at least 5-7 years more in the cellar. 93(-) pts. at the moment.

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