ESPACTACLE DEL MONSANT 2019 750ML

Description

99 POINTS ROBERT PARKER • The 2 hectare vineyard is 100% Garnacha planted just after phylloxera, probably in about 1905, on an extremely steep slope. • The wine is made in a single new oak 4000 litre vat. This same vat is used for the whole process: fermentation, malo-lactic and ageing for about 18 months. After bottling the vat is sold and a new one is purchased for the new vintage. Only about 5000 bottles are made. • The very first vintage (2004) scored 99 points from Parker. Since then it has never scored below 96, and the 2019 again scored 99! Robert Parker 99 points ESPECTACLE DEL MONTSANT 2019 | RENE BARBIER | MONTSANT | 99RP “It’s always an exciting moment tasting a new vintage of the wine from one of the most beautiful vineyards in Montsant, and the 2019 Espectacle del Montsant didn’t disappoint. It’s always Mediterranean, heady and ripe, decadent and hedonistic. 2019 was a warm and quite classical vintage in the zone, with good ripeness (the wine’s label lists 15.5% alcohol), and the wine is hedonistic, nuanced and complex, with very good acidity, which is one of the characteristics that makes this vintage so complete. Despite everything, the wine is medium to full-bodied and comes through as perfumed and ethereal. They do long macerations and long aging in foudre. 2019 is a very serious vintage for this wine; it’s a little closed and needs time in the glass, and it’s tight and seamless, a little austere for what this wine usually is. This is truly spectacular. 6,500 bottles produced. Drink: 2023-2032.”