Terroir al Limit | Priorat | Les Manyes | 2011 | 1500ml

Description

Product description for Terroir al Limit Les Manyes 2011

Marian Henß:On the palate, it hits exactly the same note. The fruit is wonderfully intense on the palate. Red aromas in all their facets immediately fill the mouth and throat area and linger long aftertaste. Les Manyes 2018 is delicate and playful. The 14.5% alcohol by volume is wonderfully integrated. Now it reveals an ingenious linearity. It shoots out as straight as a candle. It has clear substance in the base, but presents itself as a great Pinot Noir. Deep as the night.

Colour

Muted cherry red with distinct violet reflections.

Nose

The 2011 Les Manyes is very open, floral, and fragrant on the nose. Aromas of violet, ivy, rose, and lavender are accompanied by sweet fruit notes such as plum, sour cherry, raspberry, raspberry drops, and rosehip. Refreshing herbal notes reminiscent of sage, mint, and boxwood, along with ethereal notes of orange zest, incense, and eucalyptus, pleasantly round out the complex aromatic spectrum. A wine that flirts with its taster even on the nose, but whose fine minerality prevents it from becoming overly pleasing.

Palate

On the palate, the 2011 Les Manyes confirms the sweet fruits of the nose. With its delicate and polished acidity and tannin structure, it seduces the palate and refreshes it with its herbal notes and fine minerality, which, thanks to its origins in limestone and clay soils, appears very finely structured. It’s easy to succumb to its seductive nature and want to savour it immediately, which you can do. But it will also be interesting to follow its development over the next few years.

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Wine Advocate

Score: 96

The 2011 Les Manyes is the only 100% Garnacha they produce, from a single vineyard, a slope at 800 meters altitude in the Scala Dei zone, where the soils is not the typical llicorella, the slate from Priorat, but a mix of clay and chalk. It’s a very aromatic wine, very heady, intoxicating, with aromas that jump out of the glass, ripe cherries, plums and rose petals, precise and focused. It’s a serious wine, the palate is medium-bodied, with a dense texture, yet it feels fluid, ripe but balanced, elegant, spicy, supple, tasty, very pleasant to drink. An extremely floral and showy Priorat. The fine-grained tannins should become better polished with some additional time in the bottle. Drink 2015-2021. _x000D_
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South African Eben Sadie of Sadie Family winery (Columela) fame and German Dominik Huber are the names behind this outstanding tiny winery in the village of Torroja. They both arrived in Priorat and were captivated by the place. Sadie returned to his homeland, but Huber never did. In fact, his French wife lives and works with him in Torroja where they live with their two-year-old son. His motivation is food and gastronomy, so he needs to produce wines that go well with food. He gets ripe grapes without very high alcohol; all vineyards are worked organically and all wines are below 14% alcohol. While I tasted 2010 and 2011 it was impossible not to talk about 2012, and especially the recent 2013 which, despite being disastrous in many parts of Europe, seems to be nearly perfect in Priorat. According to Huber, 2013 is the best vintage he’s ever seen, very relaxed and long, with vineyards maturing little by little. In the last few years he has developed some very strong ideas, and I feel a big change in the wines starting with the 2010 vintage, with much more elegance, less wood (really imperceptible, very well-integrated): He does not believe in 225-liter barriques in Mediterranean regions, oak works better in bigger volumes in Priorat; they are progressively moving to foudres. Priorat has to be organic and the soils have to be alive. He reckons hydric stress is responsible for many of the harsh tannins that you find in many reds. There will be new wines offered in the future, a whole new line of wines, with more whites and light wines. You will see very little (if any) technical details in my tasting notes as basically all the reds are vinified with full clusters and aged in used 500-liter and foudres. I tasted a really breathtaking collection of wines here, both whites and reds. Terroir al Limit is one of the names that are defining the Priorats of the 21st century. Unfortunately the wines are produced in small quantities and the prices are high._x000D_
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Imported by Eric Solomon, European Cellars, Charlotte, NC; tel. (704) 358-1565
Luis Gutiérrez

Vinous

Score: 94

(all garnacha; raised in an 1,800-liter oak cask for 24 months): Deep ruby. An exotically perfumed bouquet evokes candied red fruits, sandalwood, Asian spices and blood orange. Deeply pitched raspberry and cherry-cola flavors show excellent clarity and become sweeter with air. Licorice and bitter chocolate nuances add depth to the long, spice-accented finish, which features supple tannins and alluring sweetness.
— Josh Raynolds
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Review date: Sep 2013

Producer website: https://terroir-al-limit.com/