Winery:  Bodega Alvarez Duran                                                    

Region:  Porrera D.O.Q. Priorat

Vintage: 2021                                     

Bottle:  75cl                                                    

Grape Varietie: 50% Garnacha Blanca, 30% Viognier, 15% Macabeu y 5% Moscatel

Type:  White wine, oak aged

Alcohol Volume:  14%

Serving Temperature:  10º - 11º

Terroir X De Llicorella Blanc of limited production, is the first white wine made by the winery. It is a blend of 4 different varieties sourced from vineyards on steep slopes, planted in llicorella soils, small sheet of slate that provides de the wine with its characteristic pronounced minerality

Production:

Grapes harvested by hand. Vinification in steel tanks with natural yeasts. Soft pressed with 5 months battonage.The wine spends 5 months with its lees in French oak of 2nd and 3rd year.

Tasting notes:

Bright Straw color. Expressive aromas of ripe white fruit combined with a fabulous citrus note and touches of vanilla from its time in oak. On the palate is fresh and balanced, unctuous, integrated acidity, cool minerality, finishing long and elegant.

The Winery

Salustia Alvarez is the man behind the project of Bodega Alvarez Duran, a small family winery in Porrera, a village in the heart of the Priorat Region, the emblematic wine-making area in Cataluña.

They produce small quantities of high-quality, singular wines from fruit sourced from very old vineyards inherited by their ancestors; two vineyards totaling 7 ha, located on the outskirts of the village, with vines growing on steep slopes and terraces on soil composed of the locally known as llicorella, sheets of slate stones; “El Fonellas” a tiny vineyard and home to the oldest vines, mostly Carignan, planted as far back as 1896, vines holding on very steep licorella slopes with a drop of 44% and west orientated; and “La Rápita” vineyard, where the vines are much younger, having been in 1996 and growing on slopes with gradients ranging between 21% to 52%.