2021 Nin-Ortiz Nit de Nin La Coma den Romeu

Ester Nin and Carles Ortiz are the proud owners of this tiny wine estate with vineyards in Porrera and Torroja and in Gratallops. Ester is an oenologist and biologist and originally from the higher part of the Penedès, in El Pla de Manlleu. Carles is responsible for the vineyard, together with his mules Negret and Max. Ester is best known for her work as an oenologist at Clos Erasmus in Gratallops and at NUN, Enric Soler's top white wine in the Penedès, the first vintages of which she vinified. She resolutely opts for biodynamics in all her projects. The Planetes: is located on a llicorella site with a lot of iron oxide, called ferral, much harder than regular llicorella. The new vineyards (between 5 and 13 years old) are planted on terraces and some on old 'costers' (Carinyena), visible from the road between Falset and Porrera.

The single-vineyard red 2018 Nit de Nin La Coma d'en Romeu is a wine produced from one of the most beautiful vineyards in the Priorat. It is an area of 11 HA containing a vineyard of only 1.5 hectares of 60 year old Garnacha, while the rest is olive, hazelnut and fruit trees; it is a spectacular amphitheater at 325 meters altitude and has one of the oldest soils in Priorat. The bunches were picked on September 18, cooled for 24 hours at -4 degrees Celsius, any dried grapes removed and trampled into an oak barrel where it fermented with natural yeasts. It went through malolactic aging and maturation in used oak barrels of 225, 300 and 600 liters until it was bottled in June 2020. It is 14.18% alcohol and has a pH of 3.3 but not very high acidity. No filtering. Minimum dose of SO2 just before bottling.

The Nit de Nin La Coma d'en Romeu is deep red and young in color. Lush and open fragrance palette that is very attractive. Great class and so is the taste! Everything a great wine should have and already very accessible today. The southern orientation of the vineyard produces a more fruit-driven wine, mainly red fruit, but also floral and with impressions of schist, completely balanced, complex and with enormous length. Only around 1,250 bottles of this Grandcru from the Priorat are produced