The Winery L'Encastell is one of the world's great estates. It offers 5 wines for sale in of Priorat to come and discover on site or to buy online.
Looking for the best Winery L'Encastell wines in Priorat among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery L'Encastell wines. Also find some food and wine pairings that may be suitable with the wines from this area. Learn more about the region and the Winery L'Encastell wines with technical and enological descriptions.
How Winery L'Encastell wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of veal shank with mushrooms, lamb tagine with quince or pheasant in a casserole with white wine.
On the nose the red wine of Winery L'Encastell. often reveals types of flavors of cream, cherry or oaky and sometimes also flavors of smoke, earthy or blackberry. In the mouth the red wine of Winery L'Encastell. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.
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.
~2,010 ha of steep relief.
Planning a wine route in the of Priorat? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery L'Encastell.
Intensely coloured and powerful reds with a deep colour, firm tannins and high acidity, on aromas of blackberry, blackcurrant, plum, garrigue, pepper, liquorice and balsamic notes. Old vines (>50 years, often centenary) yield exceptional cuvées. A historical pillar of Languedoc-Roussillon blends (Corbières, Minervois, Fitou, Maury) and star of Catalan Priorat under the name Cariñena. Very late-ripening variety from Aragon, also called Mazuelo in Rioja.
