Priorat
Creu Celta 2003
Tasting notes...
Full bodied and earthy with sumptuous pine, chocolate, berry, and vanilla notes, it has a firm structure and is ideal with cheese and red meat dishes
We recommend you decant and thus aireate the wine before consumption. Whilst drinking on release, this wine will evolve over the next few years.
Technical Information...
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Production - 3960 bottles (75cl) |
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Bottled - October 2005 |
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Vinified at Viñedos de Ithaca, Gratallops, Priorat |
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Alcohol - 14% vol, Total acidity - 6.42 (g/l),
Ph : 3.18, Volatile acidity : 0.48 (g/l) |
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Aged in New and Old French oak barrels, Creu Celta 2003 is mainly a blend of Garnacha and Syrah with a little Cariñena and Cabernet Sauvignon. |
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The 2003 vintage is the first vintage from our vineyard in Priorat. We have also purchased some grapes to blend with our own production |
What the Press have said about Creu Celta 2003...
“Another exclusive, this Garnacha-Cabernet blend is full of spice and berry fruit without being over the top. 4 **** Stars” $30
‘Worth a Detour’ page on Ferry Plaza Wine Merchant in San Francisco, California.
DECANTER MAGAZINE – March 2007
“I know these McAlindon lads in Belfast. I’ve got pretty wobbly-kneed with them, so I know the kind of wines they like, and the kind of quantities they like them in. But I didn’t expect them to go off and start making their own!
But of course, what a suitable choice. Priorat. Great big beefy powerhouse reds to warm an Ulsterman’s heart in the depths of the Belfast winter. And they’ve done well. This isn’t just an over-strength sun-spoiled mess of dates and raisins, this manages to keep a fresh plum depth, and when you mix that with figs and dates and prunes, some fairly mighty tannins and a rather lifted acidity, it’s as though all the red wine flavours have been baked into a sticky Saharan stew. And it’s smashing.
Well done, lads. Slainte.”
OZ CLARKE - Websters Wine Guide 2007
‘Toasty and black fruit aromas. Modern fresh wine, herbaceous and minty, quite tannic and round with a long aftertaste. 2-5 years.
Congratulations a good example of its type”
DECANTER MAGAZINE - December 2006
“The first vintage is stylistically bang on the money, and terrific value.”
JOE WADSACK - Harpers (May 2006)
“That’s pretty good! Tastes very typical for this vintage, ‘03 was very arid, very dry.
The very sexy things about the Priorat region are wonderful rich fleshy tones but good acidity, the finish is elegant and dry… it’s got all those things.
Lots of piney scented characteristics, some chocolatey kind of raspberry fruit. It’s a flipping good wine actually. Quite impressed. Bloody good!”
JOE WADSACK - BBC N.I. Summer Season (May 2006)
“The colour was magnificent; a lovely deep purple demonstrating both its youth and its provenance... it has a wonderful depth to its colour and aroma. There are violets, and dark brambly fruits in this wine, as well as about 14% alcohol, plenty of acidity and tannin... even in its youth this wine is elegant now and will become even more graceful as time goes by.... will mellow into the superb wine it will become!”
COLIN HARKNESS - Costa Blanca News (July 2005) (Tasted from Barrel)
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