This wine continues to drink well - tonight we paired it with slow cooked pork tenderloin. Dark fruit, well structured with surprising prominent, but well integrated tannins. I agree with others that this wine will last for years to come.
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Camphor, incense, gorgeous bouquet. Huge palate presence, with intense fruit, succulent acidity, and tons of ripe tannins. Perfect match with a seared duck breast. This is a fantastic wine, and deserves to be much more well known.
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Absolutely spot on right now, drinking beautifully. Very healthy acidity provides verve to textured tannins and potent dark fruits. Exotic spices and wet stone complete the picture. Stellar juice that provides value well beyond its modest price. Should be great for years to come.
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I feared this might be at the end of its life: not so. Delicious Priorat, with finely grained texture. Blackberries and black cherries tinged with smokey raspberries.
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Very dark intense colour. Intense, slightly green, mature, slightly vegetal nose. Medium to full bodied, ripe and juicy with currant, red cherry and plum fruit. Probably at peak, very nice and great for the price.
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This was quite tasty, but not as smooth as I would have hope for a 2004. Lots of Cabernet Sauvignon component, which is supposedly quite unusual for a Priorat. Great QPR at ~$40!
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Always a great Priorat; love the 90/210 balance of Cabernet Sauvignon and Syrah. Deeply flavored with black fruits and berries, and presenting soft but mouth-coating tannins. Great and Day two as well.
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Theme was Spain or Portugal, blind. This followed Rosalie’s 2006 Pasanau Ceps Nous, no one guessed the same winery, some thought Priorat (probably more because of our reputation of bringing themed pairs than real taste knowledge). No one guessed Cabernet. Still inky purple, no real signs of age. Complex, bright fruity nose, but other stuff, spice and forest floor, in there as well. Full bodied, complex palate, dark fruit, a hint of pepper, cassis... As soon as I said Cab, lots of “aha” expressions were heard. Long finish. This is good stuff. Again, doesn’t seem to be available any longer in PA, will need to search.
In a good place right now great depth and aromatics with dry textured tannins. Held up for two more nights and opened up a little more with the additional air
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Popped and poured, followed with a meal over 90 minutes. Dark red. Black raspberry. Noticeable but sweet tannins. An excellent Priorat, but based on this and last year's bottle, I will probably drink these in the next year or two, as it seems to have plateaued. Time will tell...
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Excellent bottle. Ripe, rich, and full. I am not certain that it was worth $40 I paid for it, but it was quite tasty. No need to decant. No need to wait any longer.
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Wonderfully powerful juice, which at the age of 10+ years still has a swift tannic kick to it. Dense dark fruits, a classic mineral element, and a lovely peppery finish. Great alongside a chunk of fatty beast. Very approachable now, but still in the early stages of maturity I'd venture.
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Has softened but still structured. Improves with a little air. Missing some of its old deep fruit. But makes up for it with its spicy orange and poison, and its savory balsamica.
Tasted in the morning and this was decimated. Drink -2016.
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Decanted for 1 hr and served with pork chops w/ romesco. Delicious wine with red fruit and a plush texture. Not heavy at all and a nice food wine. No rush if you have them, but they are ready.
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My mother-in-law's favorite wine; she's visiting for the night. Integrated but attention-grabbing tannins, subdued black fruit with red streaks complementing stimulating secondary notes of graphite and cedar. Nice on the tongue, a treat on the palate, and so for food with some fat content. The blending of Cabernet Sauvignon (here, 80%) with the typological Grenache is decreasingly common in Priorat. Too bad, 'cause this really rocks.
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Decanted thru aerator and drank over next 40 minutes with another couple. No detailed notes. Rich, full-bodied, dry. Smooth. Drank well right away and may have grown more complex with some time. Excellent wine.
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Really excellent. Dark and chewy, with wild, gamey overtones. Shocked to see (according to producer website) this is mostly cab and small % of grenache. A bit tight out of the bottle, but revealed itself fully after a few hours (no decant). Very satisfying and good value.
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very good. I had a little night one and two and the bulk drunk by friends the next night. Big rich and powerful and really can handle years of aging and probably would be even better. Right now still a few rough exuberant edges that time would improve for me
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Crimson, slightly Indian Red meniscus. Excellent iteration of Priorat. Cabernet Sauvignon (80%) and Grenache (20%) is an unusual enough blend to give one pause, and makes for a lovely spotlight on the Catalonian terroir. The grenache imparts a figgy quality with a touch of white chocolate to the dark and rich cab base. All four of us, including one largely uninterested in wine (to whom I happen to be long-married) loved it with our roast chicken, savoring every sip. 92 on product, 94 on pleasure quotient.
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San Diego WineSpectator.com Offline, 10/6/2012 (Carlsbad, California): Tasted blind. Inky purple-garnet-black. Powerful bouquet and palate of jammy black and blue fruit. Huge, extracted, oaky wine with firm mouth-coating tannins. 80% cabernet sauvignon, 20% grenache. I guessed "New World cab, merlot, or petite syrah."
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Rich fruit, firm structure, moderatelyn long finish and the indefinable x-factor that makes a good wine near-great. Hold for several more years; it can only get better.
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This Priorat continues to impress with its richness of fruit tempered by a tannic overlay. The result is a beautifully balanced well-structured wine that will only get better as it ages in the bottle.
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With Richard and Helen opposite a 2004 leonetti. Double decanted for thirty minutes. Beautiful big heavy wine that needs time in decanter and will improve over next several years
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This wine has truly come into its own. The interesting but restrained nose does not foretell the wonderful experience to follow. The liquid caresses the mouth with earth-tempered fruit, and retains a perfectly balanced structure all the way down, with a finish that is long and strong. What a find! So glad I have 6-more bottles to savor.
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"Am Gaumen sehr voll, fast wuchtig hier hat das Superjahr 2005 seine segensreichen Spuren hinterlassen mit reifem Tannin und exzellent vorgetragener Fruchtaromatik. Der Nachklang lang und dicht, zeigt wieviel Potenzial in diesem Wein steckt."
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- Garnet color with medium forming legs and aromas of raspberry and blackberry. It's somewhat balanced and has flavours of black currant with a medium/full body. Linear texture with a medium finish.
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This has improved considerably with additional bottle age over my last tasting about a year ago. Still firmly tannic and structured, but the tannins have become more fine-grained and less rustic, allowing the fruit to show more prominently. Typical Priorat flavor profile on day one, with more of the garnacha showing through. Red and black cherry fruit, baked/roasted character, unmistakeable Priorat scorched earth flavors, spice and some cassis as well. By day 2, this was clearly showing as more of the cabernet-dominated wine that it is, though holding firmly to its Catalan roots. At its best with additional air, I will hold my remaining bottles for a few more years.
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My second favorite at the BU Tudo Espanol tasting. A deep, deep opaque color. Brilliant. still lots of purple and the color goes all of the way to the rim. 3 The high tone floral of the Granacha. I can smell the acid in this wine...acetone? nail polish remover? combined with tar, complex, compelling. 5 smooth but marked tannins and and a vibrant acidity. Really mouth filling. Needs 5 or more years age to soften everything out. I will try this wine tomorrow. Heavier mouth feel than the Rioja. 7 A combination of power, ruggedness, and refinement, not elegance just very nicely balanced. A long, long even somewhat bitter finish. 3=18. This wine grows on me each time I taste it. Get more high quality Priorot. It is intellectually and sensually stimulating. ON the second day, the wine remained dry, and bitter on the finish, but powerful and rugged.
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Today was the 5th day I've been skiing this year, but the first "real" day. I went skiing with someone who kicked my ass all over the hill. We skied the steep, the deep, the wind-blown, the hurricane-force winds, and survived the 50 mph winds at the top of the Tram. Visibility was incredibly poor, which made surviving the powder a real challenge. After experiencing everything steep and challenging at the Bird, and surviving with some of my body in tact, I came home and absolutely needed a glass of wine. I made a warm a toasty fire, enjoyed a slow-cooked roast, and vowed to either get LASIK or buy some prescription goggles for the next white-out, wind-filled and challenging day filled with powder. Thank God I survived, and thank God for the warmth of a real fire paired with a dusty Priorat wine. This wine is nothing to write home about, but it served its purpose, and let me recover my dignity. One can expect no less from a dusty Spanish red.
Typical "roasted" priorat nose, showing more of the unique terroir than the unorthodox high cabernet backbone. Fiercely tannic, chewy, with notes of coffee, mineral, tart cherries. Likely could benefit from more time in bottle, and in fact, when revisited on day 3, this was much improved. At the point, showing more of its cabernet fruit, with cassis, lead pencil, and leather, but still tooth-staining and massively tannic. Should be interesting to see how this develops after a few years. Not sure whether the fruit will outlast the tannins, but a good buy at $20.
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Nose was brooding and undifferentiated. The palate showed ripe black fruits, plums, tobacco, smoke. A bit chunky in the middle and chalky drying tannins in the finish. I suspect that if Id had some time to give it air, I would have loved this wine. As it was I enjoyed it well enough.
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Check it out. WS gave this an 86, WA gave it a 95. When presented to me for a bulk buy I was hesitant with such a discrepancy between the two. I ended up with one sixpack leaving five on the table and wishing a couple days later I had bought the whole lot. This wine is truly amazing and is ultimately my favorite style, to date. Big and chunky, dark as night, I was slobbering over the tannins and blueberry. Earth, tobacco, minerals, red licorice, layers and layers of red fruit. I decanted it, held it to the sun, no light penetrated. Complex aromas of berries and plumbs, wet mud, olives. The finish lasted forever it seemed. Superb acidity, tannin, and fruit balance. big fruit while keeping it rusticity. Like an orchestra, just freakin beautiful! I agree with JM, good call on this one.
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Upon opening, this wine showed some off aromas that were difficult to assess. (reductive funk or VA?) Over a bit of time, this became less dominant, and dark fruits and green came to the fore on the nose. As we approached an hour in the decanter, the green did subside. Amply tannic. Medium plus finish. This seems like it could stand a bit more time.
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Bought six bottles of the wine, drank 4 so far. One bottle was fine and very enjoyable. All the other bottles had so much VA, that they were practically undrinkable.
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Priorat: '01 and '04: Passanau Finca La Planeta: Tannic but still lighter on its feet and more fascinating than the (fascinating) '01; but then its beautiful sour cherry fruit, copper, and brown sugar become disjointed--showing too much heat, revealing that it would benefit from the three additional years in the cellar.
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Cabernet Smackdown (Steve T's, Vernon Hills IL): nose: real nice and balanced nose with rich and pungent tones of dark cherries, spices, red fruits and red currants. This is really nice right now on the nose and is expressive
taste: big tannins show off the youth of the wine with a rich and full feel with tones of cedar, tobacco, dark red cherries, spice tones and red currants
overall: Needs some time, but is showing some real promise. A few years should do this good as the aromatics are great right now, but the tannins need to round out a bit and the nose could use a bit more depth
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Continued to develop over three nights. A gorgeous dark, brooding cab nose. Great mix of old and new world on the palate, strong tannins on the finish that subsided the more days it was open. Great wine.
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Very nice cedar and dark red fruit notes, with an excellent mouthful of chewy tannins. Enjoyed this very much. Reasonably priced Priorat that does not disappoint.
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Rich and modern w/o being overly-extracted or gnarly. Red raspberry fruit, liqueur body which taper off nicely to the finish. Low on acids in the aggregate. A nice spice comes out and the fruits played well w/ a simple steak-frites.
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No tasting notes recorded, tasted along a series of Spanish wines. I liked this one a lot, very old world but good great red fruit, spice, cedar and lead pencil. 45 minutes of decanting certainly helped. Something I certainly want to buy more of.
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The Jug is done fooling around (Suite 100): Upon opening, great nose, full of red fruits, some pencil lead, and rasberry liquor. Medium bodied on the palate, with mouth clenching tannins. Long finish. Later on, the tannins subsided, but this took on a tartness with the high acidity. This was very good, but never really came together. Kind of like a jug saw puzzle that never quite fit, but it looks like it's gonna be a really nice picture. Even so, 91-92, with higher potential.
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3/4/2024 - Hamersly wrote: 94 Points
Enticing phenols, deep and juicy. Surprisingly, tannins aren’t yet completely resolved. At peak, just delightful.
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3/31/2022 - spendergast Likes this wine: 94 Points
This wine continues to drink well - tonight we paired it with slow cooked pork tenderloin. Dark fruit, well structured with surprising prominent, but well integrated tannins. I agree with others that this wine will last for years to come.
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11/8/2021 - europat55 wrote: 92 Points
Nose: 93; Palate: 91
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10/6/2020 - robmatic wrote: 94 Points
Camphor, incense, gorgeous bouquet. Huge palate presence, with intense fruit, succulent acidity, and tons of ripe tannins. Perfect match with a seared duck breast. This is a fantastic wine, and deserves to be much more well known.
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8/3/2020 - bmiller wrote:
Very, very nice. Better in Burgundy glass than Bordeaux. Rate 93+.
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1/20/2020 - robmatic wrote: 94 Points
Absolutely spot on right now, drinking beautifully. Very healthy acidity provides verve to textured tannins and potent dark fruits. Exotic spices and wet stone complete the picture. Stellar juice that provides value well beyond its modest price. Should be great for years to come.
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5/20/2019 - prism wrote: 93 Points
I feared this might be at the end of its life: not so. Delicious Priorat, with finely grained texture. Blackberries and black cherries tinged with smokey raspberries.
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3/31/2019 - thebonnydooner wrote: 91 Points
Very dark intense colour. Intense, slightly green, mature, slightly vegetal nose. Medium to full bodied, ripe and juicy with currant, red cherry and plum fruit. Probably at peak, very nice and great for the price.
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4/4/2018 - europat55 wrote: 91 Points
This was quite tasty, but not as smooth as I would have hope for a 2004.
Lots of Cabernet Sauvignon component, which is supposedly quite unusual for a Priorat.
Great QPR at ~$40!
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3/30/2018 - prism wrote: 92 Points
Always a great Priorat; love the 90/210 balance of Cabernet Sauvignon and Syrah. Deeply flavored with black fruits and berries, and presenting soft but mouth-coating tannins. Great and Day two as well.
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2/9/2018 - Tony Poli Likes this wine: 94 Points
Theme was Spain or Portugal, blind. This followed Rosalie’s 2006 Pasanau Ceps Nous, no one guessed the same winery, some thought Priorat (probably more because of our reputation of bringing themed pairs than real taste knowledge). No one guessed Cabernet. Still inky purple, no real signs of age. Complex, bright fruity nose, but other stuff, spice and forest floor, in there as well. Full bodied, complex palate, dark fruit, a hint of pepper, cassis... As soon as I said Cab, lots of “aha” expressions were heard. Long finish. This is good stuff. Again, doesn’t seem to be available any longer in PA, will need to search.
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11/27/2017 - wineack Likes this wine: 89 Points
In a good place right now great depth and aromatics with dry textured tannins. Held up for two more nights and opened up a little more with the additional air
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6/15/2017 - robmatic wrote: 92 Points
Stellar juice, at peak now. Powerful and fleshy without being jammy. Should be great to drink over the next several years but no big hurry.
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1/4/2017 - prism wrote: 92 Points
Popped and poured, followed with a meal over 90 minutes. Dark red. Black raspberry. Noticeable but sweet tannins. An excellent Priorat, but based on this and last year's bottle, I will probably drink these in the next year or two, as it seems to have plateaued. Time will tell...
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11/20/2016 - stevenc.rees@gmail.com Likes this wine:
No notes taken over dinner, but I recall liking the wine, though thinking that the Priorats do not appeal to me as much as the Riojas...
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12/31/2015 - norsktorsk wrote: 94 Points
This wine is drinking very nice right now.
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12/30/2015 - europat55 wrote: 91 Points
Very rich, dense, tasty wine.
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12/5/2015 - John Nezlek wrote: 90 Points
Excellent bottle. Ripe, rich, and full. I am not certain that it was worth $40 I paid for it, but it was quite tasty.
No need to decant. No need to wait any longer.
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7/23/2015 - prism wrote: 92 Points
Very ripe, this bottle showing more mature than others. Tannins fairly well integrated, full body, sweet dark fruit. Delicious.
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3/29/2015 - robmatic wrote: 93 Points
Wonderfully powerful juice, which at the age of 10+ years still has a swift tannic kick to it. Dense dark fruits, a classic mineral element, and a lovely peppery finish. Great alongside a chunk of fatty beast. Very approachable now, but still in the early stages of maturity I'd venture.
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1/18/2015 - Rollerball wrote: 92 Points
Has softened but still structured. Improves with a little air. Missing some of its old deep fruit. But makes up for it with its spicy orange and poison, and its savory balsamica.
Tasted in the morning and this was decimated. Drink -2016.
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11/15/2014 - jwebtx wrote:
Decanted for 1 hr and served with pork chops w/ romesco. Delicious wine with red fruit and a plush texture. Not heavy at all and a nice food wine. No rush if you have them, but they are ready.
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10/16/2014 - Ed B wrote: 93 Points
Same as before. Excellent.
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5/6/2014 - neurovino Likes this wine: 92 Points
Decanted 3 hours. Much fuller than pop and pour.
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5/1/2014 - prism wrote: 92 Points
My mother-in-law's favorite wine; she's visiting for the night. Integrated but attention-grabbing tannins, subdued black fruit with red streaks complementing stimulating secondary notes of graphite and cedar. Nice on the tongue, a treat on the palate, and so for food with some fat content. The blending of Cabernet Sauvignon (here, 80%) with the typological Grenache is decreasingly common in Priorat. Too bad, 'cause this really rocks.
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4/22/2014 - Ed B wrote: 93 Points
Decanted thru aerator and drank over next 40 minutes with another couple. No detailed notes. Rich, full-bodied, dry. Smooth. Drank well right away and may have grown more complex with some time. Excellent wine.
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1/26/2014 - maxfischer wrote: 92 Points
Really excellent. Dark and chewy, with wild, gamey overtones. Shocked to see (according to producer website) this is mostly cab and small % of grenache. A bit tight out of the bottle, but revealed itself fully after a few hours (no decant). Very satisfying and good value.
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4/21/2013 - Mr T wrote:
very good. I had a little night one and two and the bulk drunk by friends the next night. Big rich and powerful and really can handle years of aging and probably would be even better. Right now still a few rough exuberant edges that time would improve for me
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4/10/2013 - prism wrote: 93 Points
Crimson, slightly Indian Red meniscus. Excellent iteration of Priorat. Cabernet Sauvignon (80%) and Grenache (20%) is an unusual enough blend to give one pause, and makes for a lovely spotlight on the Catalonian terroir. The grenache imparts a figgy quality with a touch of white chocolate to the dark and rich cab base. All four of us, including one largely uninterested in wine (to whom I happen to be long-married) loved it with our roast chicken, savoring every sip. 92 on product, 94 on pleasure quotient.
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10/6/2012 - Javachip wrote: 93 Points
San Diego WineSpectator.com Offline, 10/6/2012 (Carlsbad, California): Tasted blind. Inky purple-garnet-black. Powerful bouquet and palate of jammy black and blue fruit. Huge, extracted, oaky wine with firm mouth-coating tannins. 80% cabernet sauvignon, 20% grenache. I guessed "New World cab, merlot, or petite syrah."
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6/29/2012 - halbri wrote: 94 Points
Rich fruit, firm structure, moderatelyn long finish and the indefinable x-factor that makes a good wine near-great. Hold for several more years; it can only get better.
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6/26/2012 - halbri wrote: 94 Points
This Priorat continues to impress with its richness of fruit tempered by a tannic overlay. The result is a beautifully balanced well-structured wine that will only get better as it ages in the bottle.
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6/22/2012 - John McCabe wrote: 91 Points
It may not be my style of wine, though some may really like it. Somewhat strange taste - some unusual vanilla and floral tones.
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6/7/2012 - Mr T wrote:
This is a big rich wine with still vivid deep red..popped and poured by the pool with friends in plastic goblets...no rush...lots of yums
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5/13/2012 - kenarn wrote:
With Richard and Helen opposite a 2004 leonetti. Double decanted for thirty minutes.
Beautiful big heavy wine that needs time in decanter and will improve over next several years
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3/4/2012 - halbri wrote: 94 Points
This wine has truly come into its own. The interesting but restrained nose does not foretell the wonderful experience to follow. The liquid caresses the mouth with earth-tempered fruit, and retains a perfectly balanced structure all the way down, with a finish that is long and strong. What a find! So glad I have 6-more bottles to savor.
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1/5/2012 - jgimpelson wrote: 90 Points
Awesome, 2 more in the cellar, aging will only help.
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12/31/2011 - ERx wrote: 94 Points
Garnet ruby tomatoes' earthiness on the nose persimmon? Bing cherry spice box still quite tannic decanted fantastic !
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12/11/2011 - Weinfreund JR wrote: 93 Points
"Am Gaumen sehr voll, fast wuchtig hier hat das Superjahr 2005 seine segensreichen Spuren hinterlassen mit reifem Tannin und exzellent vorgetragener Fruchtaromatik. Der Nachklang lang und dicht, zeigt wieviel Potenzial in diesem Wein steckt."
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10/9/2011 - 11mcraig wrote: 92 Points
- Garnet color with medium forming legs and aromas of raspberry and blackberry. It's somewhat balanced and has flavours of black currant with a medium/full body. Linear texture with a medium finish.
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10/4/2011 - GrapeScott wrote: 93 Points
This has improved considerably with additional bottle age over my last tasting about a year ago. Still firmly tannic and structured, but the tannins have become more fine-grained and less rustic, allowing the fruit to show more prominently. Typical Priorat flavor profile on day one, with more of the garnacha showing through. Red and black cherry fruit, baked/roasted character, unmistakeable Priorat scorched earth flavors, spice and some cassis as well. By day 2, this was clearly showing as more of the cabernet-dominated wine that it is, though holding firmly to its Catalan roots. At its best with additional air, I will hold my remaining bottles for a few more years.
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8/20/2011 - sadofsky wrote:
Just great. Decanted 2 hours. Dark, dark red. Dry and tannic, but with plenty of fruit. Cherries and plum with leather, and a long finish.
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5/29/2011 - neurovino wrote:
2 hour decant. Coming into it's own compared to 6 months ago.
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3/24/2011 - hosscrow wrote: 94 Points
My second favorite at the BU Tudo Espanol tasting. A deep, deep opaque color. Brilliant. still lots of purple and the color goes all of the way to the rim. 3 The high tone floral of the Granacha. I can smell the acid in this wine...acetone? nail polish remover? combined with tar, complex, compelling. 5 smooth but marked tannins and and a vibrant acidity. Really mouth filling. Needs 5 or more years age to soften everything out. I will try this wine tomorrow. Heavier mouth feel than the Rioja. 7 A combination of power, ruggedness, and refinement, not elegance just very nicely balanced. A long, long even somewhat bitter finish. 3=18. This wine grows on me each time I taste it. Get more high quality Priorot. It is intellectually and sensually stimulating. ON the second day, the wine remained dry, and bitter on the finish, but powerful and rugged.
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12/29/2010 - norsktorsk wrote: 93 Points
This wine is young. I agree with Yeti. I can only imagine this at two year intervals. Still quite enjoyable.. Perhaps with some Morbier.
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12/19/2010 - A&C wrote: 88 Points
Today was the 5th day I've been skiing this year, but the first "real" day. I went skiing with someone who kicked my ass all over the hill. We skied the steep, the deep, the wind-blown, the hurricane-force winds, and survived the 50 mph winds at the top of the Tram. Visibility was incredibly poor, which made surviving the powder a real challenge. After experiencing everything steep and challenging at the Bird, and surviving with some of my body in tact, I came home and absolutely needed a glass of wine. I made a warm a toasty fire, enjoyed a slow-cooked roast, and vowed to either get LASIK or buy some prescription goggles for the next white-out, wind-filled and challenging day filled with powder. Thank God I survived, and thank God for the warmth of a real fire paired with a dusty Priorat wine. This wine is nothing to write home about, but it served its purpose, and let me recover my dignity. One can expect no less from a dusty Spanish red.
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12/19/2010 - A&C wrote:
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10/29/2010 - GrapeScott wrote: 90 Points
Typical "roasted" priorat nose, showing more of the unique terroir than the unorthodox high cabernet backbone. Fiercely tannic, chewy, with notes of coffee, mineral, tart cherries. Likely could benefit from more time in bottle, and in fact, when revisited on day 3, this was much improved. At the point, showing more of its cabernet fruit, with cassis, lead pencil, and leather, but still tooth-staining and massively tannic. Should be interesting to see how this develops after a few years. Not sure whether the fruit will outlast the tannins, but a good buy at $20.
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7/23/2010 - Uglypinga wrote:
Nose was brooding and undifferentiated. The palate showed ripe black fruits, plums, tobacco, smoke. A bit chunky in the middle and chalky drying tannins in the finish. I suspect that if Id had some time to give it air, I would have loved this wine. As it was I enjoyed it well enough.
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6/1/2010 - GreatLibations wrote: 95 Points
Check it out. WS gave this an 86, WA gave it a 95. When presented to me for a bulk buy I was hesitant with such a discrepancy between the two. I ended up with one sixpack leaving five on the table and wishing a couple days later I had bought the whole lot. This wine is truly amazing and is ultimately my favorite style, to date. Big and chunky, dark as night, I was slobbering over the tannins and blueberry. Earth, tobacco, minerals, red licorice, layers and layers of red fruit. I decanted it, held it to the sun, no light penetrated. Complex aromas of berries and plumbs, wet mud, olives. The finish lasted forever it seemed. Superb acidity, tannin, and fruit balance. big fruit while keeping it rusticity. Like an orchestra, just freakin beautiful! I agree with JM, good call on this one.
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3/8/2010 - thalver wrote: 92 Points
Upon opening, this wine showed some off aromas that were difficult to assess. (reductive funk or VA?) Over a bit of time, this became less dominant, and dark fruits and green came to the fore on the nose. As we approached an hour in the decanter, the green did subside. Amply tannic. Medium plus finish. This seems like it could stand a bit more time.
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3/2/2010 - Weinlakai wrote:
Bought six bottles of the wine, drank 4 so far. One bottle was fine and very enjoyable. All the other bottles had so much VA, that they were practically undrinkable.
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2/18/2010 - ERx wrote: 91 Points
Rudy red; dried fruit (blueberry/cherry), cedar. Really developed over an hour , so contain yourself.
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2/18/2010 - Rollerball wrote: 93 Points
Priorat: '01 and '04: Passanau Finca La Planeta: Tannic but still lighter on its feet and more fascinating than the (fascinating) '01; but then its beautiful sour cherry fruit, copper, and brown sugar become disjointed--showing too much heat, revealing that it would benefit from the three additional years in the cellar.
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11/6/2009 - KeithAkers wrote: 92 Points
Cabernet Smackdown (Steve T's, Vernon Hills IL): nose: real nice and balanced nose with rich and pungent tones of dark cherries, spices, red fruits and red currants. This is really nice right now on the nose and is expressive
taste: big tannins show off the youth of the wine with a rich and full feel with tones of cedar, tobacco, dark red cherries, spice tones and red currants
overall: Needs some time, but is showing some real promise. A few years should do this good as the aromatics are great right now, but the tannins need to round out a bit and the nose could use a bit more depth
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10/6/2009 - oski wrote: 93 Points
nice
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9/24/2009 - saribo wrote: 93 Points
Continued to develop over three nights. A gorgeous dark, brooding cab nose. Great mix of old and new world on the palate, strong tannins on the finish that subsided the more days it was open. Great wine.
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5/22/2009 - oski wrote: 93 Points
Huge wine, massive tannins and very good
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2/20/2009 - beezer6 wrote: 92 Points
A Taste of Spain (Binny's South Loop - Chicago, IL): Excellent finesse shown in this bottling. Shows great depth without being overpowering.
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12/30/2008 - ths wrote: 93 Points
Very nice cedar and dark red fruit notes, with an excellent mouthful of chewy tannins. Enjoyed this very much. Reasonably priced Priorat that does not disappoint.
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12/4/2008 - ChinonRouge wrote: 89 Points
I enjoyed this wine but found it to be a little primative compared to my favorites. Still nice.
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10/15/2008 - AndrewSGHall wrote:
Rich and modern w/o being overly-extracted or gnarly. Red raspberry fruit, liqueur body which taper off nicely to the finish. Low on acids in the aggregate. A nice spice comes out and the fruits played well w/ a simple steak-frites.
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9/24/2008 - Mark wrote: 91 Points
No tasting notes recorded, tasted along a series of Spanish wines. I liked this one a lot, very old world but good great red fruit, spice, cedar and lead pencil. 45 minutes of decanting certainly helped. Something I certainly want to buy more of.
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7/25/2008 - hutch wrote: 91 Points
The Jug is done fooling around (Suite 100): Upon opening, great nose, full of red fruits, some pencil lead, and rasberry liquor. Medium bodied on the palate, with mouth clenching tannins. Long finish. Later on, the tannins subsided, but this took on a tartness with the high acidity. This was very good, but never really came together. Kind of like a jug saw puzzle that never quite fit, but it looks like it's gonna be a really nice picture. Even so, 91-92, with higher potential.
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