Álvaro Palacios Wine L’Ermita 2014 – 2015

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  Vino tinto Tinto GR-174

  Description of Red Wine Red GR-174

  It is the expression of farms. In it involved the two terroirs, one (Casa Gran) bringing much freshness and red fruits and the other (La inviolability) with minerality, structure and black fruit.It is made with all grape varieties from the two farms: Grenache, Cabernet Sauvignon, Samsó, Syrah, Merlot and Cabernet Franc.  
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  Rosé wine, Scala Dei – Pla dels Àngels

  Another of the faces of Grenache. Pla dels Angels is the first pink of Cellers Scala Dei, prepared by their winemaker, Ricard Rofes, which has managed to develop this fragrant, fresh and delicate rosé wine from a selection of grapes from dand vineyards high on clay soils. Has been selected as one of the 10 best rosé of the world 2015 “The Global Rosé Masters”, competition organized by the prestigious magazine Drink Business.

  DEVELOPMENT (VINIFICATION)

  To preserve the aromatic characteristics of the Garnacha, it cools the grapes on their arrival warehouse up to the 2 ºC, is despalilla, and after 3 hours of maceration with skins starts bleeding in deposit to get this pale color and attractive. Subsequently desfanga and it is the fermentation as if it were a white wine. After the fermentation is in tank for about 4 months, until comes the time of bottling.

  VINEYARD (VITICULTURE)

  Grapes from the high areas of Scala Dei, the D. O. Q. Priorat, on soils argilosos that retain the acidity and, therefore the freshness of the grapes at the time of the grape harvest. Vineyards young and old, predominantly orientations north and east, located between the 500 and the 600 meters of height.

  AWARDS

  91 POINTS YEARBOOK OF WINES (THE COUNTRY) 2018

  90 POINTS GUIDE PEÑÍN 2018

  90 POINTS GUIDE 365 DAYS (LIVE THE WINE) 2018

   
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  Red wine Masdeu Scala Dei

  Masdeu is a red wine from a single vineyard, one of the oldest wine from Scala Dei already working as the carthusian monks. In its production, has recovered the way you work and the ancient techniques of winemaking that had desaparecidor in Priorat, as the fermentation and refining in fats and deposits of cement. With this Book we intend to show the different faces of Grenache Scala Dei, depending on your height, soil and preparation.

  DEVELOPMENT (VINIFICATION)

  With this wine we wanted to recover a heritage of development that existed in Priorat and that takes us up to the first bottled wines of Cellers Scala Dei. So,having investigated as those bottles of the years 70 had been developed, we have vinified the Masdeu. Vintage during the third week of October, in small boxes, with the 100% from the stems in the fermentation, but with the grape pressed (not whole). Fermented in a small tank of cement 3.500 liters, imitating the peak temperature of the fermentations of the last century, without added yeast, and pressing at the own tank of cement.Foster: the 55% the wine was for 16 months in deposit of cement, the 25% wine 16 months in foudre of 1.400 liters, the 15% in the barrel of 600 litres during also 16 months and the rest in a jar buried in a wooden crate with clay during 16 months.

  VINEYARD (VITICULTURE)

  Masdeu is a vineyard terraced situated on the slopes of the Montsant, in the D. O. Q. Priorat. Is the vineyard Cellers Scala Dei has more height, comes around 800 meters at its tallest terrace. The soil is red clay in its lower part, to go to increasing the content of the limy as we are coming to the last terrace where is a floor of stones completely.. Orientation South-East, and planted during the TWENTIETH century, in 1945. It is one of the vineyards that the monks had planted Grenache from centuries ago.The add 2013 it was “the vintage“, the vintage wine preceded by a cold winter, spring, generous rainfall, cool summer at the beginning and then warm but not hot, late harvest and lack of rain during harvest, did that the maturation slow and regular,resulting in wines with body, fruit and fresh at the same time. The only but is that it was a short crop for the Grenache, because the curd was not very good.

  AWARDS

  95 POINTS GUIDE PEÑÍN 2018

  94 POINTS WINE SPECTATOR 2017

  90 POINTS GUIDE PROENSA 2017

  95 POINTS ROBERT PARKER 2016

  93 POINTS YEARBOOK OF WINES (THE COUNTRY) 2018

  9,81 POINTS GUIA DE VINS DE CATALUNYA 2017
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  Red wine, Scala Dei Cartoixa

  This author's wine is call Cartoixa gives an account of the continuity of the link with the vineyards who looked after the monks in the Middle Ages. Because Scala Dei Cartoixa is not only the wine more emblematic of the cellars of Scala Dei; it is also a milestone in the history of wine of the Priorat to have been the first wine to be bottled under the D. O. C. Priorat. This Crianza red is made with a selection of the best grapes native to the area: Garnacha and Cariñena.

  DEVELOPMENT (VINIFICATION)

  This wine was elaborated from selected grapes of the best plots of the D. O. Q. Priorat. Each parcel was fermented separately. The maceration lasted about 3 weeks depending on the variety and the grape to achieve a wine with the typicity of each of the vineyards.Parenting 18 months in foudres of 1.400 liters, bocois of 500 liters and deposits of cement 2.100 liters.By having different origins of Garnachas, different heights and different soils, these need a different treatment for your foster, because each vineyard is aged separately in which we believe that is the best measure for expressing your terroir.

  VINEYARD (VITICULTURE)

  Grapes from varieties of historical of the area, the Garnacha and Cariñena, and from old vines of around 60 years old, planted on the terraces and in the typical “costers” llicorella of the Priorat. The terrain, the driving of the plants and, above all, the desire to obtain the best grapes, makes the grape harvest is done manually only. The vineyards are situated between the 500 and the 800 meters of altitude. Each year we choose those who have given the best grapes to ferment separately, pampering the extraction, taking care of the expression of the fruit and taking each step during their preparation to maintain the expression of the quality that had the grape at the time of collection.

  AWARDS

  94 POINTS TASTING.COM (JERALD O KENNARD) 2017
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  Red wine Mas d'en Blei – Liber

  PRODUCTION limited to 2.500 bottles.

  VITICULTURE Grapes of coastal llicorella of the finca Mas d'en Blei, with south-west orientation. Controls are carried out for maturation to proceed to the harvest in its optimal point, that is done manually in boxes of 10kg. After a first manual selection, is desraspa and performs a second selection grain by grain. The complete formulation up to the coupage is performed by separating varieties and plots.

  VINIFICATION At the entrance in the cellar is done in a pre-maceration pre-cool the grapes during 24 hours. Long fermentation of 20 to 24 days with “pegeage” manual journal, using indigenous yeasts. Parenting 14 months in French oak barrels (Q. Petrea) of 225 liters, fine grain and medium toast-light. Maintained a minimum of 18 months in the bottle to get a good point of maturity. It is a wine with a character of breeding, due to its complexity. This is a wine technician who resists a lot of time in the bottle and can be consumed in excellent condition in the following 5 years old.

  ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

  Medal of SILVER in DECANTER World Wine Awards 2015.

  93 points Peñin Guide 2017