Favorite Priorat Wines

WINE TALK
#1

Hit me with your votes for your favorite Priorat wines (with or without JM’s high scores blahblah ).

I have very little experience with this region and the few that I have tried I don’t remember because they were - well, unremarkable. But, I’m willing to seek out a few to see if it’s the whole region I don’t like or just the ones people have served me.

Chris

#2

Mas D’en Compte
Mas Alta
Roquers de Porrera

#3

Clos Erasmus
Clos Mogador
Palacios Finca Dofi
Clos d’Lobac
Mas Doix

Those are the major wineries I really enjoy.

#4

Chris, perhaps not the direction most would go, but I’m going to one of my white standbys, especially for a spirited game of stump the wine geek. The Conreria d’Scala Dei Priorat Vi Blanc “Les Brugueres”, an old vines garnacha blanca of real depth, minerality and food pairing flexibility. When I first began buying it a few years ago, it could be had for under $20, but it’s rarely south of $30 these days. Still worth seeking out, even with the steeper tariff.

#5

Alvaro Palacios L’Ermita
Rotllan Torra Tirant
Trio Infernal No. 2/3
Clos Martinet

#6

+1 for Mas Doix, particularly thier ‘second’ wine called Salanques.

#7

Vall Llach, Clos Erasmus & Clos Martinet.

#8

Salanques sucks, it’s like drinking an Oak tree.

If you must drink a 2nd wine, I’d go with the Clos Erasmus Laurel.

#9

Haven’t tasted a lot of 'rats, but like Alvaro Palacios “Les Terrasses”

#10

I disagree on the oakiness of Salanques. Laurel is super ripe and I’ve had a lot of VA laden bottles lately :frowning:

My favorites?

Clos Mogador
Mas Doix VV & Mas Doix Salanques
Rotllan Torra Tirant
Clos Martinet
Trio Infernal 1/3 & 2/3
Galena & Clos Galena

#11

Seek out this new one…

FERRER BOBET!

#12

+1, although with the price increase, I have also noticed a more closed style on release. Needs a few years. Mas D’en Compte makes a killer Blanco as well, but again, needs a few years first.

Also +1 on the Trio Infernal 2/3. That wine smokes. I greatly prefer the Carignan and Bordeaux variety driven Priorats to the Grenache based stuff, Mas Alta being the exception (Cambie’s trained hand to thank for that). I got burned out on the Mas Doix and Clos Erasmus stuff.

#13

Thanks for all the suggestions!

Anyone try any of the Parmi wines? I think the 2005 vintage was their inaugural. I id purchase some of these from Garagiste last year, but have yet to take delivery and try any.

Chris

#14

I have tried
Miguel Torres Perpetual-Salmos
Mas Doix Costers de Vinyes Velles
Celler Mas Doix S.L. Salanques
an really liked them, out of these Miguel Torres Perpetual-Salmos 2005 was the best and even it is very highly rated in our wine database.

#15

Another vote for Mogador, as well as the ‘Manyetes’ bottling from Mogador. I don’t think it is a second wine.

I’ve always found the wines from Rotllan Torra to be very Bretty. The 97 Tirant was practically undrinkable.

#16

I haven’t tried them yet, but I bought a few from Garagiste, so I know that they will be “spectacular” because “there is a new sheriff in town” and that the Martina, in particular is a “megalith” that “if you could take a blowtorch to fossilized grapes and melt them in an industrial revolution iron smelter with solid road tar and a smattering of Partaga ash, it would be” the Martina. [swoon.gif]

#17

Easy.

None. pileon

Had a few decent wines but by and large these are just not for me…

Still waiting to be blown away… I guess.