Retour Clos Mogador - Priorat - Nelin - Blanc - 2019
COUNTRY/REGION: Spain
DESIGNATION: Priorat D.O.Q
COLOR: White
VINTAGE: 2019
GRAPE VARIETY: Grenache blanc & maccabeu complemented by various grape varieties (folle blanche, cartoixa, carignan etc.).
ALCOHOL: 14 vol.
CONTENT: 75 cl
The sommelier's advice
Temperature Serve between 10 and 12°C.
Food Seafood, Breton lobster au naturel, scallop cassolette, Armorican-style calamari, chicken tajine with preserved lemon.
Cellar ageing From now until 2028 and beyond for enthusiasts
The estate and the wine
The estate and the wine A Priorat splendor, Clos Mogador is the work of the Barbier family, who fell in love with this amphitheater plunging into the Siurana River. A fairytale born in 1979, on this land exiled from Catalonia, one of the oldest vineyards on the Peninsula. Altitude, freshness, and varied exposure shape the wines that have become legendary: powerful, majestic red wines and a unique, dazzling white wine.

This mythical estate, cradled by terroirs of schist and quartz, forges wines of extreme finesse, repeatedly awarded the highest Parker scores.
Wine Perfectly ripe and concentrated, vinified very gently with indigenous yeasts, in contact with the skins, and aged exclusively in 12 hl foudres, the 2019 white Priorat Nelin is a rich, generous white of remarkable beauty. The nose is phenomenal, with Mediterranean aromas of dried herbs, white flowers, and pollen. The material is brilliant, refined, and balanced, offering the best of white Grenache, with great complexity of flavor and, above all, incredible freshness. A vintage of rare balance and sumptuous elegance at this level of richness. Rated 96+/100 by Parker.
Vinification Hand harvested. Fermentation in barrels and foudres using indigenous yeasts. Aged for 12 months in 1200-liter tuns, then 6 months in stainless-steel vats. Bottled in June 2021. Small production of 6880 bottles.
AWARDS
AWARDS Guide Robert Parker : 96+/100