Priorat
Mediterranean, continental inland
A remote, mountainous corner of Catalonia where old Garnacha and Cariñena vines root into black slate, making some of Spain's most concentrated, mineral reds.
Genel bakış
Priorat hakkında
Priorat's terraced vineyards climb steep hillsides around a former Carthusian priory (the region's namesake) south-west of Barcelona. Its defining soil, llicorella — a dark, crumbly slate and quartzite — forces old bush vines to root deep for water, yielding tiny amounts of intensely concentrated fruit.
The zone was little known outside Spain until a group of growers, led by René Barbier, Álvaro Palacios and others, arrived in the 1980s and 90s and began bottling single-vineyard wines from its old Garnacha and Cariñena, transforming Priorat into one of only two Spanish regions (with Rioja) awarded the top DOCa classification.
Priorat haritada işaretli.
İspanya
Gölgeli alan: Tarragona. Harita birimleri eyalet, il ya da département'dır; bu yüzden daha küçük bir yer, onu içeren daha büyük alan olarak görünür.
Arazi
İklim ve terroir
İklim
Mediterranean, continental inland
Hot, dry Mediterranean summers moderated by altitude — many vineyards sit above 400 metres — with cold winters typical of Catalonia's interior mountains.
Terroir ve topraklar
Asmaların yetiştiği zemin
Llicorella: dark slate and quartzite on steep terraces, poor and well-drained, forcing vines deep underground for water and minerality.
Daha derine
Kurallar, yıllar ve üreticiler
Bir yılı diğerinden iyi yapan şey buradaki iklimden gelir: mediterranean, continental inland.
Harika bir yıl
A hot but not extreme summer with some relief at altitude, letting old, low-yielding Garnacha and Cariñena ripen fully without stress.
Zor bir yıl
A severe drought year, hard even on deep-rooted old vines, or unseasonal rain that dilutes the tiny, concentrated yields.