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2017 Miguel Torres Priorat Salmos

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January 14, 2024 - $21

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RATINGS

93James Suckling

A beautiful red with rather flamboyant fruit, showing crushed berries, flowers and some chocolate and walnut undertones. It’s full-bodied and layered. Creamy texture.

92Wine Spectator

A polished and engaging red, with packed-in flavors of kirsch, ripe currant and anise, flanked with mountain herb, espresso and spice elements. A nicely integrated acidity keep this harmonious and balanced.

92Vinous / IWC

Mineral-laced aromas of candied dark fruit, licorice, woodsmoke and violet are complemented by a spicy topnote. Juicy and broad on the palate, offering ripe blackberry and bitter cherry flavors that become sweeter and spicier with air. Delivers a powerful punch and shows very good depth, displaying appealing sweetness and resonating floral and spice notes on a long, gently tannic finish.

91Wine Enthusiast

...nose of blackberry, dark chocolate and summer farm stand. Robust tannins come on strong, backing flavors of cassis, cherry preserves, butterscotch, lavender and a hint of green pepper that flow into a long finish.

90The Wine Advocate

...mixture of berry and spicy oak aromas and limited Priorat character. It's polished and balanced, and the tannins are fine-grained.

REGION

Spain, Cataluna, Priorato

Priorat in southern Catalonia is one of Spain’s newer regions for quality wines. With only about 2,500 vineyard acres, it is not one of Spain’s larger appellations, and its rocky mountains and hillsides make for challenging vineyard management. But grapes have been grown here in the rich, volcanic soil since at least the Middle Ages, when Carthusian monks planted vineyards. Bulk wines were the main focus here until the late 1970s, when pioneering Spanish winemakers Alvaro Palacios and René Barbier replanted vineyards and vastly improved winemaking in the region. Clos Mogador, Clos Erasmus and Finca Dofi were some of the now much-admired wineries started in the later decades of the 20th century. By the 1990s many innovative, quality-focused wineries were started in Priorat, making it one of the hottest winemaking regions in Spain. Priorat was made a DO in 1954 but upgraded to the prestigious Demoninación de Origen Calificada, or DOCa, in 2000. (In Catalan, the regional language, the appellation abbreviation is DOQ.) Full-flavored, full-bodied wines with relatively high alcohol content are characteristic of Priorat, with Garnacha (Grenache) and Carinena (Carignan) being the traditional grapes.