2022 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 comes 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 oenologist of Clos Erasmus in Gratallops and of NUN, the top white wine of Enric Soler in the Penedès, of which she vinified the first vintages. In all her projects she resolutely opts for biodynamics. The Planetes: is located on a llicorella plot with a lot of iron oxide, called ferral, much harder than normal llicorella. The new vineyards (between 5 and 13 years old) are planted on terraces and partly 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 11 HA area with only 1.5 hectares of 60 year old Garnacha vineyard, while the rest is olive, hazelnut and fruit trees; it is a spectacular amphitheatre at 325 metres altitude and has one of the oldest soils in the Priorat. The bunches were picked on September 18, chilled for 24 hours at -4 degrees Celsius, any dried grapes removed and trodden under foot in an oak barrel where it fermented with natural yeasts. It went through malolactic ageing and maturation in used oak barrels of 225, 300 and 600 litres 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 filtration. Minimum dose of SO2 just before bottling.

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