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Mas Doix Salanques 2008Price: $33.00    Case Price: $29.70

Masdoixsalanques
Color:
Red
Body/Type:
Full Bodied
Style:
Modern
Size:
Bottle, 750 ml
Winery:
Mas Doix
Grapes:
Garnacha / Grenache and Carnelian
Serve At:
59°-64° F
Region:
Spain > Priorat

The owners of Mas Doix consider 2008 to be one of the top 3 vintages of the decade, “a great vintage with low yields and vibrant acidity”. A blend of 65% Garnacha, 20% Carinelian with Syrah and Cabernet Sauvignon rounding out the wine. Its older vines were aged for 12 months in 50% new French oak while the younger vines were aged in second year barrels. Intense and concentrated with aromas of cedar and spice.

From the Carthusian monks of Scala Dei in 1163, comes the hippest wine of Spain. Okay, so I skipped a few steps. Planted to vines by the monks, the region was tended by them until 1835 when they were distributed to small landholders in the territory. Devastated by the scourge of phylloxera in the late 1800’s the land lay most fallow for almost a hundred years until planting occurred again in the 1850’s. But the wines of Priorat were unremarkable…until a small group of revolutionary wine makers, let by Alvaro Palacios, saw potential in this scorched earth. They planted new vineyards, not with just garnacha, monastrell, carinena and other traditional grapes of the region, but also cabernet sauvignon, merlot and syrah. In 1993 Palacios produced a wine called L’Ermita that rocked the world’s view of this region. Bottles of L’Ermita routinely sell for $300 plus today. It is no doubt a premium wine region.

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