2015 | Ferrer Bobet | Priorat Selecció Especial Vinyes Velles

Priorat Selecció Especial Vinyes Velles boasts a deep purple color as well as rocking notes of black plums, black licorice, ground pepper, violets, and new leather. Ripe and full-bodied, with moderate acidity and terrific balance. Deep, dark though not saturated black-red. Dense, close-grained aromas of great subtlety and complexity: a sense of stone and savoury depths as well as sweet yet austere black fruits. Deep, dark, vivid and profound yet provocative flavours which, as the aromas suggested, tread the fine line between sweetness and austerity.

Reviews:

• Jeb Dunnuck: The old vine 2015 Vinyes Velles checks in as a Carignan-dominated blend from vines just outside the village of Porrera that includes one-third Grenache, all of which spent over a year in French oak. It’s a bigger, riper, sexier wine than the Ferrer Bobet cuvée and boasts a deep purple color as well as rocking notes of black plums, black licorice, ground pepper, violets, and new leather. Ripe and full-bodied, with moderate acidity and terrific balance.

• James Suckling: This really captures the freshness of the carignan grape with its bright cherry character. Medium-to full-bodied with spice from the grenache and excellent vitality on the long, crisp finish.

Producer Information

Ferrer Bobet is a Spanish wine producer of Priorat in the south of Catalonia. Each vintage it produces a limited range of wines from old vine Grenache and Carignan. The estate has 22 hectares (54 acres) planted to vine, many of which are old vine Grenache and Carignan although there are plantings of Syrah, Cabernet Sauvignon and Viognier as well. Here, slat-based soils locally known as Ilicorella imparts minerality and has a degree of water retention. All vines are cultivated with organic principles. The flagship wine of the portfolio is the Ferrer Bobet Vinyes Velles, a blend of Carignane, Grenache, Syrah and Cabernet Sauvignon, the portions of which depend on the vintage. After a hand-pick in the vineyard, grapes are fermented in a combination of oak, stainess steel and concrete tanks prior to barrel-aging in French oak for 12 months. The other wine of the duo-portfolio is the Ferrer Bobet Selecció.

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