Terroir Sense Fronteres Montsant Negre 2022 Garnache (6 Bottles) Montsant, Spain

by Fine Wine Cellars

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Negre is a blend of 75% Garnacha and 25% Cariñena, from mature vines sited around Capçanes.

The 25-year-old (on average) bush vines sit at 350 metres on limestone, clay and slate with varied exposures. Specifically, the Garnacha comes from the mixed sandy clay soils known locally as panal and the Cariñena is from predominantly red clay soils. This release was 100% whole-bunch fermented in tank only, a gentle yet short fermentation of around seven to eight days. Following this, the wine rested in tank for six months and was bottled unfiltered.

Redolent of freshly picked raspberries, ripe cherries, mountain herbs and crushed rock, the aromas here could hardly be more enticing. Equally energetic on the palate, there’s excellent depth while it remains extremely light on its feet–we love the way it’s driven as much by the wine’s bright acidity as it is by the gentle, yet crunchy tannins. Easily the most exciting release under this label yet.

“The Capçanes village red 2019 Negre was produced with 75% Garnacha and 25% Cariñena from organically farmed vineyards on clay soils, fermented in stainless steel with full clusters (they don’t have a destemmer here or in Priorat) and bottled unoaked after six months. It has aromas of licorice and Mediterranean herbs. It has character and is light and ethereal, in the direction of the 2018, with fine-grained tannins and a stony sensation in the mouthfeel. This is incredible; it has 12.5% alcohol and is fluid, fresh and incredibly easy to drink. This is young but very approachable.” 92 points, Luis Gutiérrez, The Wine Advocate

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About Montsant, Spain

Montsant is a wine region in Catalonia, northern Spain. The gently undulating area was formerly categorized as a viticultural sub-zone of Tarragona, but local growers felt the high-altitude vineyards here earned the region recognition as a DO in their own right. As a result, the Montsant DO was created in 2001, its name taken from the Montsant massif (‘holy mountain’) that dominates the region’s landscape.

To anyone who knows Dominik Huber’s ground-breaking Priorat wines, Terroir al Límit’s move into Montsant was always going to result in something unique. The genesis of Terroir Sense Fronteres began in 2015 when Huber finally acquired his iconic Garnacha vineyard, Les Manyes.

As part of this purchase, Huber was also able to obtain an adjacent four-hectare parcel of Garnacha lying just metres across the Priorat border in DO Montsant. The vineyard is called Els Montalts. While the terroir here is almost identical to Les Manyes, Montsant is another DO, so a new project was born.

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