Winery Marco Abella - Clos Abella Selección Especial

Winery Marco AbellaClos Abella Selección Especial

4.3
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(Average of the reviews for all vintages combined and from several consumer review sources)
Tasters consider this wine to be one of the best in the region.
The Clos Abella Selección Especial of Winery Marco Abella is a red wine from the region of Priorat of Catalogne.
In the mouth this red wine is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.
This wine generally goes well with poultry, beef or game (deer, venison).
The Clos Abella Selección Especial of the Winery Marco Abella is in the top 30 of wines of Priorat.

Taste structure of the Clos Abella Selección Especial from the Winery Marco Abella

Light
Bold
Smooth
Tannic
Dry
Sweet
Soft
Acidic

In the mouth the Clos Abella Selección Especial of Winery Marco Abella in the region of Catalogne is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

Wine flavors and olphactive analysis

Wine with oak taste

oak, chocolate

Wine with earth taste

leather, smoke

Wine with spices taste

licorice, menthol

Wine with floral taste

violet

On the nose the Clos Abella Selección Especial of Winery Marco Abella in the region of Catalogne often reveals types of flavors of cherry, oaky or smoke and sometimes also flavors of blackberry, blueberry or minerality.

Details and technical informations about Winery Marco Abella's Clos Abella Selección Especial.

Grape varieties
Region/Great wine region
Great wine region
Country
Style of wine
Alcohol
15.5°
Allergens
Contains sulfites

Discover the grape variety: Cayuga

Aromatic whites in dry and off-dry styles, with a pale golden hue, lively acidity and fruity aromas of apple, pear, muscat notes and floral hints. Cold and disease resistant. Grown in the north-eastern United States (New York, Finger Lakes), it adapts to continental wine climates and is used for dry and off-dry whites. American hybrid white grape obtained in 1972 by Cornell University, a cross of Seyval blanc × Schuyler.

Last vintages of this wine

Clos Abella Selección Especial - 2015
In the top 30 of of Priorat wines
Average rating: 4.211110
Clos Abella Selección Especial - 2014
In the top 30 of of Priorat wines
Average rating: 4.411110
Clos Abella Selección Especial - 2013
In the top 30 of of Priorat wines
Average rating: 4.211110
Clos Abella Selección Especial - 2012
In the top 30 of of Priorat wines
Average rating: 4.211110
Clos Abella Selección Especial - 2011
In the top 30 of of Priorat wines
Average rating: 4.611110.5
Clos Abella Selección Especial - 2010
In the top 30 of of Priorat wines
Average rating: 4.311110
Clos Abella Selección Especial - 2009
In the top 30 of of Priorat wines
Average rating: 4.411110

The best vintages of Clos Abella Selección Especial from Winery Marco Abella are 2011, 2014, 2009, 2007 and 2010.

Informations about the Winery Marco Abella

The winery offers 11 different wines.
Its wines get an average rating of 3.9.
It is in the top 3 of the best estates in the region
It is located in Priorat in the region of Catalogne

The Winery Marco Abella 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.

Top wine Catalogne
In the top 300 of of Spain wines
In the top 35 of of Priorat wines
In the top 4000 of red wines
In the top 5500 wines of the world

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: Vineyard

Said of a wine with a certain alcoholic richness and clearly showing the characteristics that distinguish wine from other alcoholic beverages.

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