Mas Tortó

Tasting note:

Medium satured red; dark berry fruit flavours; light roasted aromas of plums, currant; some toasty coffee flavours;  lots of red and dark berry flavours in taste; complex but fine; very sofisticated style; intense seroius fruit caracter; powerful but elegant; serious sweet tannins; complex and mineral; nice freshness and very good length

Food pairing: 

Roasted lamb chops, goat, beef, duck, game (partridge, quail, rabbit); stews, casseroles, grilled vegetable, cheeses, Sirloin, oxtrail

Grape varieties: 

70% old vines Garnacha
- 40% Garnacha del Pais (catalan, indigenous Klon)
- 35% Garnacha Peluda („hairy“ leaves; imported from Southern France after   Phylloxera
10% Merlot
10% Syrah
10% Cabernet Sauvignon

temperature controlled fermentation (27-29ºC; indegenous yeast)
varieties were vinified partly separately, partly blended in stainless steel tanks adn open barrels
mazeration: 18-30 days
malo-lactic fermentation started in tank and finished in barrel
not cold stabilized, light filtration
no finning

14 month aged in new and one year old mainly french oak barrels (228l); Allier and Never; light and medium toasted; 1 racking
after blending aged for 3 months in tank before bottling

small plots of old Garnacha vines (70 years old
Cabernet Sauvignon: 25 years ols; Merlot: 15 years old; Syrah 6-15 years old – all three from por mineral low yielding „slate soil“
Low yield: green harvest
terroir: clay, granit; very mineral; several plots of slate
slopes and terrases
altitude: 200-550m
prunning: Garnacha: traditional bush vines; the others on „wire“

by hand, in 20kg boxes
harvest starts beginning of september untill mid october
second manual selection on table selection
yield: 
- 5 o 0 to 1000g /vine
- 20-30hl/ha (Garnacha); 25-40 hl/ha (the others )

14,5 % vol. Alcohol
5,3 g/l acidity (tartaric)
< 3 g/l residual sugar

3000 bottles (75cl.)

"Guía Vino ABC 2013", Spain:

  • "Mas Tortó 2009" 93p Crece con ganas. Liviano en nariz, aromas muy suaves, un toque de barrica, un algo de fruta... Extraordinario en boca, para todos los públicos, suficiente densidad, gran equilibrio, excelencia frutal. Crianza: doce meses en barrica. Variedades: garnacha (70%), cabernet sauvignon, merlot y syrah.

"Guía Proensa" 2013, Spain:

  • "Mas Tortó 2009" 93p: El más opulento de la gama, pero no exento de nervio y frescura. Expresivo y elegante en aromas, equilibrado y potente en la boca, sabroso, amplio, largo.

"Guía Peñín" de los vinos de españa 2013, Spain:

  • "Mas Tortó 2010" 91p. Vino excelente. Color cereza, borde violáceo. Aroma complejo, equilibrado, fruta madura, especiado, hierbas de monte. Boca estructurado, sabroso y complejo.

"Guía Vino 2012 de ABC", España:

  • ”Mas Torto´09”:92 p

"Wein- plus", Germany 2012: 

  • "Mas Tortó '09" 91p  Clean nose, ripe, partly preserved black berries, some raspberries and cherries, touch of dried herbs, some tobacco, integrated oak and prominent mineral notes. Full-bodied and juicy on the palate, ripe, creamy, partly preserved and candied fruit, some oak and chocolate, delicate acid bite, very ripe, silky tannins, persistent, appealing style, already deceptively approachable, although the wine does not yet reveal its full potential, firm core, has some depth, very good finish.

Guía Andrés Proensa 2005, España:

  • ”Mas Torto´01”:89 p

Guía José Peñín 2005, España:

  • “Mas Torto´01”: 89 p “La Guía de Oro 2005”, España:
  • ”Mas Torto´01”: Bronce

Guía Andrés Proensa 2004, España:

  • ”Mas Torto´00”: 94 p

Guía José Peñín 2003, España:

  • Muy buenos (80-85+p): Mas Torto 2000

“Mondo-Weine der Welt”, Gerhard Eichelmann, Alemania, marzo 2004:

  • “Mas Torto´01” 93 p

“The Guardian Weekend”, Malcom Gluck, /Inglaterra, Oct 2003:

  • “Mas Torto´2000”: 16,5 puntos

www.finediary.com, Bailey Brothers:

  • "Mas Tortó casi podría ser Porto. Es un vino enorme con un toque simple de banana en nariz. Taninos secos. Un vino gigante"

 

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