Wine Description
Made from a blend of 70% Cariñena grapes from 80 to 100 year old vines and 30% Garnacha of the same age. Yields are less than a ton an acre from steeply terraced vineyards of granite and quartzite shards. Aged in new French barriques, bottled unfined and unfiltered.
Tasting Notes
Monsalvat has ripe flavors of wild blackberries with a long, mineral finish. Both powerful and elegant, this wine can be paired with a wide array of dishes.
Reviews
Wine Enthusiast - June 2010
Buying Guide
“Opens with rooty, mature aromas of tobacco, baked berry and raisin, while the palate is full and roasted, with sweet baked-plum and brown sugar flavors. Mature and ready to go, with head-to-toe sweetness and molasses accents. Not a hard, tannic wine.”
89 points
eRobertParker - Issue #175 / February 2008
Spain: The Beat Goes On
"The 2002 Montsalvat is 70% Carinena and 30% Garnacha from 80- to 100-year-old vines. The wine was aged for 18 months in new French oak before bottling without fining or filtration. Opaque purple-colored, it has a great perfume of pain grille, slate, spice box, black cherry and wild blueberry. Already complex, sweet, and forward, the wine has wonderful flavors but is a bit lacking in depth, probably due to the vintage. It will provide great pleasure over the next 12 years."
92 points
