Terroir al Límit Priorat Arbossar 2020 (6 Bottles) Priorat, Spain

by Fine Wine Cellars

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Vi de Coster, the equivalent of 1er Cru wine. Arbossar is a steep, 1.6-hectare vineyard of 100-plus-year-old Cariñena (Carignan) planted on schist and granite soils. It’s close to the village of Torroja where the Terroir al Límit cellars are based. Against conventional wisdom, Arbossar was planted on the cooler, north-facing slopes of Torroja.

It was this unusual site, purchased in 2005, that informed much of Huber’s early experience with the terroir of Priorat. As Luis Gutiérrez explains, it’s always a “fresher and more floral style” than the corresponding Dits del Terra (from the south-facing slopes) and picked earlier. Both wines are made in a similar fashion: 100% whole-bunch vinification with wild yeasts and 16 months élevage, exclusively in concrete.

Huber describes Arbossar as wine with a French soul, a German head and a Spanish heart—we describe it as deeply impressive.

At its core, it’s a wine of deep complexity and nuance. The 2020 seeps out the glass with alluring, complex scents of blue fruits, woodsmoke and slate before a palate-sweeping body moulded by soft tannin, lingering freshness and mineral force. It finishes with outstanding definition and length.

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About Terroir al Límit

Dominik discovers his talent and passion for Mediterranean wine and culinary arts at a rather early stage: at the age of eighteen he visits an old Ligurian Trattoria; one year later he goes on a gourmet trip through Italy, alongside German top chef Karl Ederer, that takes him to various first-class traditional restaurants.

At 27, he starts studying Economics and Marketing in London, Munich and Madrid. In 1996, while still at university, he completes his first internship at the Mas Martinet winery owned by the Perez family – situated in the Priorat, one of the two oldest wine growing regions in Catalonia.
Enthused by his experiences and insights he takes on another internship at the Perez family after graduation in the year 2000 and gets employment as a labourer for a full year. In that time, Dominik encounters Eben Sadie, a highly regarded enologist from South Africa. They become friends and return to the Perez family in 2001 to help harvest the fruit.

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