Nice find @Andrew Yandell! Started out soft with dark fruits and garrigue accents, then its bones started to show - mineral, nice build, and more complexity. Balanced and delicious from the first drop to the last.
Nice find @Andrew Yandell! Started out soft with dark fruits and garrigue accents, then its bones started to show - mineral, nice build, and more complexity. Balanced and delicious from the first drop to the last.
May 13th, 2015
Purchased at winery: still a baby, tightly wound & inky, ultimately yielded liqueur like dark fruit & minerals. Big & luscious on mid-palate, gobs of flavor, impeccable balance & polish. This has a long life ahead.
Purchased at winery: still a baby, tightly wound & inky, ultimately yielded liqueur like dark fruit & minerals. Big & luscious on mid-palate, gobs of flavor, impeccable balance & polish. This has a long life ahead.
May 29th, 2022
“I had the chance to visit the extremely steep slope where the grapes for the 2009 Gratallops Vi de Vila Partida Bellvisos are sourced. It is a blend of Cariñena and Garnacha and the wilderness of the vineyard is found in the bottle. This is a wine they age and sell when they believe it starts to show some of its true colors and is therefore more developed than other new releases. 2009 is more powerful than other vintages, and the Cariñena shows quite closed with some earthy aromas, notes of iron and tree bark. This is a ripe, powerful, serious expression of Gratallops.” RP93, 2009
“I had the chance to visit the extremely steep slope where the grapes for the 2009 Gratallops Vi de Vila Partida Bellvisos are sourced. It is a blend of Cariñena and Garnacha and the wilderness of the vineyard is found in the bottle. This is a wine they age and sell when they believe it starts to show some of its true colors and is therefore more developed than other new releases. 2009 is more powerful than other vintages, and the Cariñena shows quite closed with some earthy aromas, notes of iron and tree bark. This is a ripe, powerful, serious expression of Gratallops.” RP93, 2009
Feb 1st, 2022
Priorat, Catalunya, Spain
