Grans Muralles, DO Conca de Barberà
jamessuckling.com
94
"Meaty, chocolatey, earthy and rich, the wine is smooth, full-bodied, mellow, complex and distinctive. Grown on slate soils and aged in all-new French oak for 18 months. Fascinating, intricate and seemingly mature.”
Wine Spectator
94 Points
This bold and sinewy red is packed with flavor. Notes of steeped black cherry and currant are teamed up with graphite, wild herb and espresso underpinnings. A vibrant acidity accentuates the tea, spice and orange peel elements, marking the long finish. Should age nicely.
Decanter
95 Points
The ’great walls’ in the wine’s name protected the nearby Poblet monastery, which was the burial place of the Catalan kings. The magisterial blend highlights the family work on ancestral varieties, with Querol and Garró adding to the superbly intense and spicy palate. Liquorice, garrigue, succulent berry fruits, developing notes of leather with time, an elegant vintage.
Decanter
97 Points — Decanter Best in Show Winner 2020
Perhaps it's the 33 percent Querol component, but from the very first moment you approach this brooding, black-purple wine, something marks it out as exceptional and different from its regional peers. There's drama in the aromas; the sweet black fruits also seem to smell of crushed stone and seed spice. Once in the mouth, the wine is close-knit, vital with inner gathered force. The fruits are more complex than the aromas had suggested once on the palate; they are gently acid-sustained, and those crushed-stone flavours are present on the tongue, too...