Les Sentius

Powerful use of wood, but also a powerful savouriness behind it: Herbs and black pepper, slate, tar and Amarena cherry. All of a piece on the palate: silky and sensual, with volume seamlessly filled by high-quality extract and a distinct mineral imprint; the 15.5% alcohol by volume is almost imperceptible.

Joan Simó had great success in 2005. This wine is excellent and the higher-end Les Eres is outstanding, so bottom line: buy Simó from 2005. Getting back to Sentius, a so-called “second” wine, it is dark, sexy, smooth and shows true Priorat accents of schist, coffee, cola and berry aromas. The flavors are flashy and fresh, with mammoth black cherry, plum and coffee virtually jumping from the glass. A very deep and balanced wine to drink now through 2013.