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Cellar for up to 15 years. Decant for up to 2 hours before serving. Priorat is one of the great Spanish red wines, and the vineyard of Clos Martinet produces one of the best examples of Priorat. It opens up with a bouquet of red hedgerow fruits, coupled with a deep, slatey minerality, typical of the region, dried herbs, and warm baking spice. It is crafted from 65% Grenache, 20% Syrah, and 10% Carignan, with smaller drops of Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon. Mas Martinet was founded in 1986 by José Luís Pérez, who had an influential role in the revival of this historic wine region. The winery has since passed down to his daughter, Sara Pérez, an accomplished oenologist. The core parcel of Mas Martinet’s estate is the 7-hectare Clos Martinet, located between Falset and Gratallops, a sloping landscape with a rich bedrock of slate. On the palate, the Clos Martinet is complex and well-structured – it is a mature wine, with fine, velvety tannins, helped along by 17 months of ageing in Austrian oak. It is deeply mineral, with rich notes of blackberry, cranberry, plum, and dried Provençal herbs. Consider pairing it with some Catalan fuet, barbecued meat, or a tomato-rich pasta sauce.
Price: £51.00 from 8wines UK
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Drink now or cellar for up to 25 years. Decant for 1 hour or more before serving. The rugged mountainous region of Priorat was largely neglected until the 1980s when a group of young winemakers arrived and set out to restore it to its former glory. One...
Cellar for up to 10 years. Decant for up to an hour before serving. Martinet Bru is an equal blend of Grenache and Syrah, loaded with generous notes of blackberry, cassis, slate minerality, and toasted oak. It was harvested from a single vineyard known...
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