Winery AmetllerClos Socarrat Blanc
White wine
This wine generally goes well with
Details and technical informations about Winery Ametller's Clos Socarrat Blanc.
Discover the grape variety: Claverie
Simple, fresh dry whites with a pale golden colour, supple palate with moderate acidity, discreet aromas of white flowers and stone fruits from the Pyrenees. Productive. Often blended with Baroque, Arrufiac and Gros Manseng, contributes to South-West whites and Armagnac eau-de-vie distillation. French indigenous white variety from the South-West, mainly grown in Béarn and Tursan.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Clos Socarrat Blanc from Winery Ametller are 2013, 2006, 2016, 2008 and 2011.
Informations about the Winery Ametller
The Winery Ametller is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 22 wines for sale in the of Priorat to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Priorat
Mythical Catalan terroir, DOCa (Spain's summit alongside Rioja). Powerful, concentrated reds with signature notes of candied black fruits (blackberry, black cherry), graphite, schist, garrigue, cocoa and liquorice, firm tannins and a mineral palate strung by the "llicorella" (black schist and quartz forcing roots down to 20 m). Old vines of Garnacha (roundness) and Cariñena (Samsó, structure). Exceptional ageing.
The wine region of Catalogne
Cradle of Cava (~95% of Spanish output, traditional method): Macabeo, Xarel-lo, Parellada trilogy, fine fruity bubble. Quality peak in Priorat DOCa: dense, mineral reds on llicorella (schist), old-vine Garnacha and Cariñena with black fruit, garrigue notes, firm tannins. Also Penedès, fleshy Montsant, sunny Empordà, Costers del Segre. Mediterranean.
The word of the wine: Drawing (liqueur de)
In champagne and sparkling wines of traditional method, addition to the wine, at the time of bottling (tirage) of sugars and yeasts dissolved in wine. These components will provoke the second fermentation in the bottle leading to the formation of carbon dioxide bubbles.
