La Coma d'en Romeu 2018Família Nin i Ortiz - 75 cl.

I was really looking forward to tasting the single-vineyard red 2018 Nit de Nin La Coma d’en Romeu, a wine produced from one of the most beautiful vineyards I've seen in Priorat. The property is 11 hectares and has 1.5 hectares of 60-year-old Garnacha, while the rest is olive, hazelnut and fruit trees, vegetables and sous bois; it's a spectacular amphitheater at 325 meters in altitude and has one of the oldest soils in Priorat from the Devonian period some 450 million years ago. The bunches were picked on the 18th of September, cooled down for 24 hours at -4 degrees Celsius, any dehydrated grapes removed and foot trodden in an oak vat where it fermented with natural yeasts. It went through malolactic and aging in used 225-, 300- and 600-liter oak barrels until it was bottled in June 2020. It's 14.18% alcohol and has a pH of 3.3 but not very high acidity. This is always floral and spicy, it has lower alcohol than previous vintages (all wines in 2018 have between 0.5 and 0.8 less alcohol than average in previous years), and there is a different balance with added freshness. It has abundant, fine-grained tannins and deep flavors that make it very tasty and long, with a chalky sensation in the finish. 1,340 bottles produced.