Winery Cal Batllet - Celler Ripoll SansGratallops Escanya-Vella
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Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the Gratallops Escanya-Vella of Winery Cal Batllet - Celler Ripoll Sans in the region of Catalogne often reveals types of flavors of citrus, butter or minerality and sometimes also flavors of lemon, fig or non oak.
Details and technical informations about Winery Cal Batllet - Celler Ripoll Sans's Gratallops Escanya-Vella.
Discover the grape variety: Maréchal Foch
Deeply coloured, fruity reds with a dense purple robe, supple tannins and fresh acidity, with aromas of black cherry, blackberry, plum, blackcurrant, soft spice and earthy notes. Round palate; best young or short ageing. A very cold- and mildew-resistant interspecific variety, driving viticulture in northern regions: Canada (Quebec, Ontario, Nova Scotia) and the northeastern US. Hybrid created in 1911 by Eugène Kuhlmann in Alsace, named in honour of Marshal Foch.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Gratallops Escanya-Vella from Winery Cal Batllet - Celler Ripoll Sans are 2012, 2017, 2013, 2015 and 2016.
Informations about the Winery Cal Batllet - Celler Ripoll Sans
The Winery Cal Batllet - Celler Ripoll Sans is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 11 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: Flintstone
Said of an aroma that evokes the smell of flint just from sparking.
