2013 Arbossar
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Similar to the Dits del Terra but from a north-facing slope, the 2013 Arbossar is pure Cariñena from an ancient vineyard planted around 90 years ago, and it is always a fresher and more floral style of Cariñena, matured in a Stockinger foudre for some 16 months. I already tasted an unbottled sample last year and it showed great, lively, very red fruit-driven, electric and full of flowers and minerals, and the bottled version has delivered as expected. It's a bright ruby colored red, which is always fragrant and perfumed, more feminine than the Dits del Terra, which is the comparison because both vineyards are in Torroja and the wines share the same price range. The nose reveals bright red fruit, and feels fresher than the 2014. The tannins are ultra-sleek, really elegant and balanced. This is a superb, elegant and fresh Cariñena, without any rusticity. Super! 4,669 bottles were filled in August 2015.
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Luis Gutiérrez, Wine Advocate
Josh Raynolds
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Bright red. Powerfully scented, evoking an array of fresh red fruits, flowers and spices, with a minerally nuance building in the glass. The silky, alluringly sweet and incisive palate, reveals sappy raspberry and blood orange flavors that flesh out and deepen on the back half. This wine packs a serious punch of flavor but remains lithe, with wonderful finishing clarity, length and silky tannins building slowly. Whole-cluster fermented and aged in wooden foudres for wo years.
About the producer
Created by Dominik Huber and Eben Sadie in 2001, Terroir al Limit works with old vines and minimal intervention to make a fresher style of Priorat. Now made exclusively by Dominik Huber, its top wines are the single-site Cariñena Les Tosses and Garnacha Les Manyes.