Underneath all of that plush fruit is a stony core of structure and myriad spicy complexities that should sustain it for decades to come

It's still super young

dried orange peel and a wide array of floral elements

800 cases were made

The 2017 Clos Apalta is the 20th vintage of this wine that was produced with a blend of 48% Carmenere

Terroir Limit, Priorat Manyes Vintage:2015 Underneath all of that plushFunnily enough, Dominik Huber has only one varietal Garnacha wine, and it's a top one. The vineyard is in Torroja where the soils are slate and for Dominik slate works better with Cariena, so he sources the Garnacha from elsewhere. The prodigious 2012 Les Manyes is an unusual single vineyard Garnacha from a 50 year old plot over the Montsant Mountains, in the Masdeu zone above the Scala Dei Monastery (not in Torroja at all!), where the soils are not