Winery: Celler Costers del Priorat
Region: D.O.Q. Priorat
Vintage: 2024
Bottle: 75 cl
Grape Varieties: 100% White Carignan
Type: White Wine, fermented in oak with its lees.
Alcohol Content: 13.5% vol.
Serving Temperature: 11º–12º
Blanc de Closos is a very expressive wine with a Mediterranean character made exclusively from the variety White Carignan. It comes from the estate "Les Solanes de Mas d'en Perí" in Porrera, where scattered white grapevines can be found planted among red varieties in a vineyard composed of black slate soils. This is an ancestral tradition that is still alive today and makes it possible to produce this unusual white wine from a rare and long-cycle variety that is the purest, most honest and hedonistic expression of the Priorat mountain.
The estate is organically farmed and have in common a similar steeply sloping slate soil that is rich in mica, the black or dark "Llicorella", a type of very laminated and brittle slate that retains heat and helps the bunches ripen, contributing to the wine's unique character and exceptional intensity.
Limited production of 700 bottles.
Production:
The grapes are harvested by hand and rigorously selected both at the vineyards and at the sorting table in the winery. Then they are pressed directly to extract the highest quality free-run juice. Fermentation takes place in small stainless steel tanks until fermentation begins. The must is then racked into French oak barrels where the alcoholic fermentation process is completed. It will remain on its fine lees for 4 months.
Tasting Notes:
Good aromatic intensity that expresses the fresh and citric personality of the Cariñena Blanca, vibrant with a marked minerality. Deep with saline notes complemented by dried herb undertones and subtle touches of white stone fruits such as peach. Lively on the palate with volume and good persistence.
The Bodega Costers del Priorat is located in the municipal district of Bellmunt de Priorat in the highly acclaimed wine region known as Priorat. The winery comprises 20 ha of vineyards, mostly planted with old Grenache and Carignan vines that are between 40 and 100 years old, and most recently planted vineyards of Syrah, Merlot, and Cabernet Sauvignon. The vineyards can be found on small, steep terraces; they produce very low yields, and the work is done entirely by hand.
