Terroir al Límit Priorat Pedra de Guix 2021 (6 Bottles) Priorat, Spain

by Fine Wine Cellars

$1,097.00 GST Included

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Vi de Coster, the equivalent of 1er Cru wine. As we have said before, this is one of the most mineral, sculpted whites we know—it tastes as if the wine was tapped directly from pure rock—which of course it was. Forget about how rare white Priorat is, Pedra de Guix gives the great whites of the world a run for their money.

This is a blend of three varieties from three villages: Poboleda (on schist) provides the Garnatxa Blanca; Torroja (on alluvial soils) the Macabeo; and the chalky/gypsum soils of El Lloar gift the Pedro Ximénez; the old vines of these sites are between 50 and 80 years old. The grapes were gently basket-pressed over the course of several hours and the juice began its fermentation in cement tank before being sent to old, neutral Austrian oak foudres for 18 months.

With most of the grapes today pressed off their skins prior to fermentation, the style now hinges more on purity and tension (less on development, as in the past), without any sacrifice to the salinity and structure derived from its rocky soils. The wine was bottled unfiltered.

Heady with savoury verve, it’s an outstanding, pungent and salty rendition of this Priorat yardstick, with laser-point acidity balanced by just the right amount of phenolic grip and textural weight. Such precision and detail are more than rare in the whites from this part of the world.

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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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