Costers del Priorat Priorat Clos Cypres 2017

	Full, powerful and formidable red wine
	Made from carignan grapes
	Top wine from this domain
	Very suitable with game, beef or spicy oven dishes

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Josep Mas Barberà is a newcomer in the wine world and started making wine in 2008 for Costers del Priorat, a small bodega that was created in 2002 by merging two small vineyards. He now has a good reputation; he is known as a proponent of a fresh, relatively elegant style of priorat and is invariably one of the first to harvest his grapes. This way it prevents overripeness, which is at the expense of fresh grape aromas. The domain's top wine is the Clos Cypres, made from the grapes of centenary Carignan vines planted on steep vineyards. All work is manual and both fermentations take place in barrels of 500 liters capacity. After this, this formidable red wine matures further in these barrels for approximately 12 months.

Awards

Mention
Decanter - November 2019: Highly Recommended | 90/100 points | Nice

Description
Well defined restrained aromas of Carignan. Leads with blueberry and acid lift, develops a textured grain of tannin. Nice.

Mention
Press wine - December 2018: 16/20 points | Good to very good | Polished and juicy

Description
Sultry, leather, balsamic, fruit, broad, polished and juicy, beautiful tannin

Mention
Guía Peñín 2017: 93/100 points