Mas Martinet - Priorat 'Els Escurcons' 2019
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$89.00
Mas Martinet is the mother project of all the other family projects. Created in 1986, alongside other adventurers who started working on the “Clos” wines idea in Priorat, it has been the central axis for the Pérez family and has involved every family member to date. Mothers and fathers, sons and daughters, cousins, uncles and aunts, nieces and nephews… everyone worked on planting the vines, working them, building the winery and worked in the winery, bottling the wines, labelled them, travelled to sell the first vintages and all the other jobs that were needed to be done at the beginning. Since 2001, Sara Pérez has been in charge and all wines made at Mas Martinet have been certified as organically produced since the 2006 vintage.
100% Garnacha from a vineyard at a height of 600 meters. The highest estate of Priorat on a ferruginous slate-containing land. An exceptionally fine and elegant wine that shows the nicest slope of Priorat. Fermented in clay, and also aged in clay and demijohns. It is a wine that escapes from the typical structure, strength and rusticity of Priorat in order to offer the lightness, delicacy and maturity of the old wines.
"The 2019 Els Escurçons comes from a 20-year-old vineyard, a massal selection of old Garnacha from the village of Porrera on south- and southwest-facing terraces of ferruginous decomposed llicorella slate. In June 2015, 30 hectares of forest around the vineyard burned down, and 10% of the vines died. The vineyard expression has been coming back since 2016, but they feel it has changed, as the vegetation around it has disappeared. The first two vintages after the fire showed anger and stress, and in 2018, they noticed a change that seems to continue in 2019. But then 2019 was very unusual, incredibly concentrated but only 13.5% alcohol and surprisingly tannic. This is a wine that matures in glass demijohn and ceramic jars.” - 94 Points, Wine Advocate
Producer: Mas Martinet
Country: Spain
Region: Catalonia
Varietal: Garnacha
Appellation: Priorat
Vintage: 2019
Size: 750ml