December 23, 2022 - Still amazing!
Beautiful mid weight texture, lovely mild red and dark fruit.Possibly not long to go now but still super enjoyable.
December 10, 2020 - Decidedly weak now, well past its best. Still showing signs of former character, with dusty minerals, light cherry and red fruit flavors, but the tannins are sagging, and the palate is compressed and dilute. Finishes with a breath of life, but this bottle has definitely seen better days.
May 30, 2020 - Thinner and tart, without any real power or complexity. sort of just muted and old.
June 23, 2019 - A little stink at first, but quickly turned into quarry dust, revealing an intense mineral streak. Dried cherry, sharp tannin, juicy acidity and that old wood character that reminds one of mature Rioja. Drinking beautifully.
January 25, 2017 - kirsch, tannins still present but already soft and pleasant, quite long and all in all very good
April 7, 2016 - Animal notes on the nose, jammy and quite attractive and drinkable.
February 9, 2016 - This wine is out of balance.
June 27, 2015 - Mixed Priorat Tasting: Cabbage and prunes. Clearly "boiled" wine.
March 28, 2015 - P&P. Cork soaked wet. Didn't look good. Inital pour. Dark red coloured, slight brick rim. Thick wine. The nose was brilliant, roses, liquorella, kirsch. Top Priorat smell. The pallate was medium to full bodied, tertiair aromas, great. Still vital. What a performance after 19 years. Well done Barbier.
June 18, 2014 - Melvyn's 50th Birthday Bash (Hua Ting, Orchard Hotel): I have probably been disappointed by more Priorat wines than those from any other fashionably “in” regions in the past decade or so. Just too many big, deep and impressive, but ultimately neither very enjoyable nor engaging wines. This magnum of Clos Mogador, however, was very good indeed. It had quite an intense nose, full of rich, thick blackberry aromas swirling around more savoury notes of dried earth and meat. It was the palate that I really liked though. As would be expected after that nose, there was a real sense of rich depth to the wine’s dark-fruited character, with ripe notes of plums and black cherries and berries backed up by a deep core of earth and mineral. What I really enjoyed though was how juicy and chewy and delicious the wine was, with fine tannins and wonderful acidity giving it an absolutely lovely sense of purity and effortless grace in spite of its weight. Great stuff – this was a very complete wine. In a magnum, it still seems so very young and primary. Delicious as it was on the night, I would give it a few more years to develop greater complexity; and with its balance, depth and structure, this can probably go on for years, if not decades, after that.