Winery: De Muller                                                                 

Region: D.O.Q. Priorat    

Vintage: 2022     

Bottle: 75 cl     

Grape varieties: 60% Garnacha, 32% Syrah and 8% Carinyena

Type: Young dry red wine, barrel-aged

Alcohol Content: 14.5% vol.

Serving Temperature: 16º-18ºC.

Production: 

Legítim is one of the red wines elaborated by De Muller within the DOQ Priorat, where the winery has been producing full-bodied red wines for more than a century, and it is considered one of the three pioneer wineries at bottling wine in this denomination of origin.

A dry red wine blended from the Garnacha, Carinyena, and Syrah grape varieties. Fermentation takes place in steel vats and ageing in American and French oak barrels, followed by a short time in bottle to complete its maturation.

Tasting Notes: Warm and juicy ripe red fruit scents, with scents of spices, vanilla, and rose petals. On the palate, juicy sweet red fruit, chocolate, oak, round smooth tannins, and persistence.

Note: For drinking over 4-5 years.

DE MULLER

Founded in 1851, De Muller is a top name in Tarragona, very well-known worldwide for being the supplier of the traditional Mass wine and for its rancio and fortified wines. At present, De Muller offers a very wide range of quality wines under the Denomination of Origin Tarragona, as well as in Priorat and Terra Alta.

Since the beginning of 1996, the winery, surrounded by its vineyards, has been located in the finca “Mas de Valls” in Reus (Tarragona). Their modern installations have a capacity for a production of four million litres, and here they elaborate on the Tarragona Denomination of Origin wines, all sourced from their 150 ha of owned vineyards. They also have a property in the village of El Molar, in the south-eastern part of El Priorat, with 34 ha of vineyards, “Mas de les Pusses", and a new cellar with a capacity for 500,000 litres, where they produce their wines under the Priorat Denomination of Origin.