Torres Salmos

Wine information: Priorat is a small wine-growing area that has been making wine for the last eight centuries. The "denominación" is located in the province of Tarragona and has come to fame in the last decade after starting to apply new winemaking technologies. At the beginning of the 1980s many wine producers began planting French grapes to combine with the local varieties, and since then they have been producing more moderen, new-wave Priorat wines. The quality of both traditional and new wines is thanks to its unique microclimate and soil. The land, and this combination of old and new wines, has made Priorat one of the most closely watched areas of cultivation in Europe. This Wine is a homage to the monks of the courageous Carthusian order, who arrived in "Priorat", in 1095, where they cultivated vines. In 1835 a violent crowd destroyed the work of a lifetime and sacked the monastery, events which later culminated in the auctioning of church lands known as the "Desamortización de Mendizábal". In 1996 the Torres Family began work on the planting of vineyards on the slopes strewn with the hard, black slate-like "Licorella" stone. The grapes for this wine come exclusively from Torres family vineyards located in the municipalities of Porrera and Lloar, Salmos is a Priorat wine that manages to achieve an unparalleled balance between power and elegance. It is a blend of Garnacha Tinta, Carinena and Syrah and is aged in new French oak casks for 12 months.

Tasting Notes: The wine is dark in hue and almost opaque, it is fragrant and mineral on the nose while on the palate it is luxurious and has an excellent mouthefeel, but also silky and with a long finish. Noted for its excellent aromatic complexity. Fresh aromatic hints reminiscent of lavender and citrus fruit peel appear amongst pleasant notes of roasting, woodland undergrowth and sandalwood. Very concentrated on the palate with rounded, sweet tannins and a prolonged finish.

 
     

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