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Mas Doix Salanques, Priorat 2021
Red Wine from Spain - Priorato
A wonderful, beautifully made wine from this rising-star estate in north-east Spain's famous Priorat region. The secret behind Mas Doix is the old carignan (25%) which provides lift and fragrance to this inky, concentrated and opulent Priorat with 65% garnacha and 10% syrah.
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Code: SP20161
Wine characteristics
- Red Wine
- Full-bodied
- Garnacha/Syrah/Carignan
- 75cl
- Now to 2030
- 14.5% Alcohol
- oak used but not v. noticeable
- Cork, natural
Mas Doix
Mas Doix is a small family winery located in the north-east part of the Priorat at Poboleda. The Doix family have been in Priorat for generations since 1850, and making wine over the same period, and they united with the Llangostera family to create the latest incarnation of the estate, which they established together in 1998 to make wines from their own vineyards again having supplied fruit to the local co-operative for many years, a decision forced upon their forbears by the devastation of phylloxera in the early part of the 20th century.
Replanting soon after the cataclysm, the family chose the garnacha and cariñena varieties traditional to the region, and that unwillingness to give up in the face of extreme adversity, as many did at that time, has benefited the current generations in the form of old vines, some up to 100 years old. Today Valenti Llagostera runs the estate with the important help of his brother Ramon and winemaker Sandra Doix Mora.
This is difficult terrain, appearing to be wave after wave of rocky ridges and ranges, largely formed of ‘comas’ that are steep-sided flat mountain valleys where slate and granite soils are prevalent. One particular soil is almost unique to the area, known locally as llicorella, a kind of decomposed slate and schist that is acidic and low in nutrients. It offers excellent drainage and is friable enough for the vines the push down deep roots, which they have to do to survive here.
Priorat is a region where two climates meet,...