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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.

2002 Clos I Terrasses Priorat Clos Erasmus

Light label condition issue

RP  93   
ST  90+    

2013 Clos I Terrasses Priorat Clos Erasmus

1.5ltr

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

WA  100   
VN  95   

2016 Clos I Terrasses Priorat Clos Erasmus

Lightly elevated cork

JD  99   
WA  98+    

2003 Mas Doix Costers de Vinyes Velles Priorat

RP  98   
JD  95   
WA  94   
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2003 Mas Doix Costers de Vinyes Velles Priorat

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

RP  98   
JD  95   
WA  94   

2007 Celler Cal Pla Black Slate Gratallops Vi de la Vila

1996 Scala Dei Cartoixa

RP  91   
2 available
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1996 Scala Dei Cartoixa

Light label condition issue

RP  91   

2005 Celler de l'Encastell Roquers de Porrera

VN  90   

1998 Morlanda Crianca

Light label condition issue

2000 Morlanda Crianca

Light label condition issue

2 available
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2017 Buil & Gine Granatxa Distingida