Für Robert Parkers renommiertem »Wine Advocate« verkostete und bewertete Luis Gutiérrez u. a. Weine von
Mas d' en Gil aus der
D.O.C. Priorato. Dem roten
CLOS FONTÀ VI DE FINCA 2015 vergab er stolze 95/100 Punkten und schreibt nachfolgend im Original über die Cuvée aus
Garnacha Tinta und
Cariñena:
„I think there is a jump in finesse and precision in the 2015 Clos Fontà, their old-vine red produced with a selection of the best old vines every vintage. It's 60% Garnacha and 40% Cariñena from 50- to 95-year-old vines mostly on llicorella slate soils but also some on limestone, on 30% to 40% slopes that are facing east. It fermented in 500- and 1.500-liter oak vats, as each plot is fermented separately with indigenous yeasts; the wines were blended after malolactic in their old unterground concrete pools. It matured in French and Austrian 225-liter barriques and 1.500-liter oak vats for one year. It has notes of licorice and fennel, so typical from this part of Priorat, giving it a very Mediterranean profile, and it's spicy and earthy, with ripe fruit but without excess. The palate is medium to full-bodied and reveals abundant, fine-grained tannins and anice combination of elegance and rusticity. Again, very Priorat but without the excesses from the past. 5.868 bottles were filled in May 2017.”
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