Winery DeclaraGran Priorat
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The Gran Priorat of the Winery Declara is in the top 0 of wines of Priorat.
Details and technical informations about Winery Declara's Gran Priorat.
Discover the grape variety: Mondeusehe
Light, lively whites to drink young with a pale golden colour, airy palate with preserved acidity, showing undemonstrative aromas of citrus and alpine white flowers. Discreet Savoyard profile. Very rare, preserved for its heritage value, part of the ancient alpine varieties studied for their genetic and ampelographic interest in French collections. Rare French white variety, sometimes given as a synonym for the Savoyard Mondeuse Blanche.
Informations about the Winery Declara
The Winery Declara is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 4 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: Courgée
Name of the fruiting branch left after pruning and which is then arched along the trellis in the Jura (in the Mâconnais, it is called the tail).
