Winery: Celler Cal Pla                                              

Region: Porrera - D.O.Q. Priorat

Vintage: 2016                                            

Bottle: 75 cl                                                    

Grape Varieties: 50% Grenache and 50% Carignan

Type: Red wine, oak-aged

Alcohol Volume: 15% vol.

Serving Temperature: 16°-18°

Production: 

A coupage of the grape varieties Garnacha and Samsó (Cariñena) from 100+ year-old vines grown on terraces or steep slopes at an altitude of 500 metres above sea level and facing south. The plots, property of the family, are located around the village of Porrera in the appellation of Priorat in the Catalonian region.

Grapes are manually harvested with very low yields, only 0.5 kg per vine on average. The wine has been aged in new French oak barriques for 16 months.

Tasting Notes:

Extremely complex and expressive nose showing good fruit, black cherry and black plum, spices, and mineral notes. Dense, mineral, with a lovely intensity of a sweet, black-fruited palate. Good character and expression of region and vintage.

Notes: Would improve greatly with an hour's decanting two hours ahead. The wine has very good ageing potential. This wine will keep very well during the next 13-14 years and will gain even more complexity with time in bottle.

Celler Cal Pla is a small, family-run winery dating back to 1814. It is located in the village of Porrera, a small village in the heart of the highly acclaimed wine region of Priorat. Cal Pla is the name of the family and the house, which gives the name to the wines. They can be proud of their more than 200-year history, which has seen various generations working hard, growing vines, and making wines to pass on the legacy to their descendants.

Today, the winery is in the hands of the seventh generation of the Sangenís family, led successfully by Joan Sangenís, and produces a range of wines from grapes cultivated in the family’s own vineyards and bottled in their cellar.