Crossos, Clos Galena, Priorat, Spanish wine, organic

Crossos, Clos Galena, Priorat . Dry red wine. Organic Spanish wine. Crossos is the base wine of Priorat winery Clos Galena and already very good! Delicious nose of ripe blackberries, plums, wood and vanilla. Smooth and juicy, with beautiful ripe tannins. Wine writer Hilary Akers said in the FD: "Party!". Blend of Cabernet sauvignon, Carignan and Grenache . Dry red wine from Priorat in Spain. Wood-matured wine (on French oak barriques of 224l).

• Serving: 14 ° C
• Drinking: now until 2030

Priorat, with Rioja the only DOQ in Spain

Priorat - in Spanish Priorato - is named after a priory (monastery) that used to be here. The wine region is inhospitable with a nitrogen-poor, hard, stony soil full of minerals (mica schist). This is the famous Llicorella soil . Llicorella gives Priorat wines a nice mineral touch. But because a lot of wine is made in a robust and over the top thick style, you don't always notice that. With the wines of Clos Galena you do. All their wines have a nice elegance due to fine acidity and mineral tones. Galena is the local name for a silvery mineral that was extracted in mines.

Spanish wine regions always have DO in front of the name: Denominacion d'Origen. Only Rioja and Priorat are allowed to use DOQ in front: Denominacion d'Origen Qalficada.