Winery: En Nùmeros Vermells
Region: Gratallops - D.O.Q. Priorat
Vintage: 2021
Bottle: 75cl
Grape Varieties: 100% Carignan old vines from 1945
Type: Red wine aged in oak
Alcohol Volume: 14.5% vol.
Serving Temperature: 16º–18º
The first vintage on its own for the Carinyena planted in 1945. Previously, it had been a small part of the blend of Silvia Puig's sole 100-year-old Carinyena. In this vintage, she has decided to separate the two plots and produce two distinct Carinyenas to highlight the unique characteristics and exceptionality of each vineyard.
This red wine is made entirely from Carignan, which was sourced from centenary vines planted in Costers at a 30% gradient. Old vines in "Les Planes de Torroja" grown on soil with 70% Licorella and 30% Sauló.
Production:
The production is inferior to 300 gr per plant, and all the processes are done manually from beginning to end.
Fermentation takes place in 500-litre new French oak barrels with a long maceration of about 30 days. Afterwards, it ages in the same barrel, where it will spend 13 months. Bottled unfiltered.
Small production of 661 bottles.
Tasting Notes: Extraordinary black-coloured, with excellent complexity and elegance all the way. Beautifully integrated notes of red fruit, species, berry fruit, toffee, and liquorice. Wonderful, broad, rich, and complex, with a perfect balance of acidity and mouthfuls of berry fruit and a slight earthy note.
Note: With a good structure to age, it will improve in the cellar during the next 10–12 years.
En Números Vermells is Silvia Puig’s individual project; she is a young but very experienced winemaker with a formidable CV when it comes to winemaking and belongs to a new generation of winemakers in the Priorat. She makes amazing wines in small quantities and in a very artisanal way.
In 2008, she began her project by making just one single barrel in a small garage converted for this purpose in the village of Torroja; today, she has her own place in the village of Gratallops, where she produces the wines. All of the fruit is carefully selected from several plots staggered in Costers (a Catalán word meaning steep slopes) and terraces with soils dominated by the characteristic “llicorella” or slate in various locations around the Priorat. She cultivates some plots with very old vines, some of which are 100-year-old vines, from which she produces her signature wine, "En Numeros Vermells Centenary Carinyenas".
