2019 Mas Martinet Els Escurçons BIO

In 1981 Mas Martinet was born, a life project and a dream come true. The brand is the result of the passion of Josep Lluís Pérez and Montse Ovejero and is now in the hands of the entire family Josep Lluís, Montse, Sara, Núria, Adrià, Marc, Jordi, Armando, Pilar. The unique wines of Mas Martinet in Priorat have enormous storage potential. For more than 25 years Martinet has been at the top of the Priorat appellation. For a few years now father Pérez has withdrawn from Mas Martinet and the wines are vinified by Sara Perez (see also Venus, Dido and Gratallops ). Sara is also the wife of another icon namely Rene Barbier Jr known from Clos Mogador and Rene and Sara also make wines under their own names namely Sara Pérez y René Barbier. Of course we also carry these wines.

Clos Martinet comes from the plots of the Mas d'en Martinet estate, located in the wine region of the town of Gratallops. The land, which contains slate, and the different exposures of the vineyard give this wine the typical character of an estate each year. Mas Martinet is one of the pioneers of the new Priorat, the project of the Pérez family. Since 2017, they no longer use a sorting table and do not do pied de cuve, but all their fermentations are with the yeasts of the grapes; and they stopped cooling the grapes 15 years ago. From 2006 to 2016, they increased the number of full bunches in their fermentations, which are now all 100% full bunches for all wines except the Martinet Bru.

They have 25 hectares of vineyards in five different locations that are farmed organically and biodynamically with permaculture and regenerative agriculture. The Martinet Bru comes partly from an estate called Mas Seró, located in the area of Masos de Falset, the estate of Serra Alta, at an altitude of 400m and facing southwest, and an estate located in Torroja, which is colder and deeper. It is a blend of Garnatxa Negra, Carinyena, Sirà and a little bit of Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon of course made organically/biodynamically without chemicals.

The Els Escurçons is a tribute to Priorat before the phylloxera, when people worked in the higher areas and especially the Garnacha. The wine is a 100% Garnacha from a vineyard at 600 meters altitude. The highest estate of Priorat on an iron-rich slate land. They are still original ungrafted vines. It is an exceptionally fine and elegant wine that shows the most beautiful slope of Priorat. Fermented in amphorae and also matured in glass demijohns. It is a wine that shows the typical structure, power and rusticity of the Priorat, but with elegance, delicate ripeness that is only possible from grapes from extremely old vines. The Els Escurçons has a beautiful nose of fine red fruit such as wild strawberries and raspberries and is particularly refined and elegant in the mouth. The wine has a long, fresh, elegant grand aftertaste. This is a top Grenache as you rarely come across with a great storage potential. Only around 3,500 wines of this fantastic wine are made.