Thick and rich, this muscular red offers ripe plum and cassis flavors framed by coffee and chocolate oak notes. It sacrifices refinement for power, but has such lush flavors that it remains alluring and accessible. Drink now through 2012. 6,250 cases made, 700 cases imported.??–TM??Region: Spain / Priorat Select to Add

With intense mineral, orange peel and graham cracker aromas that give way to raisin, this is a beauty. There’s a ton of plum fruit racing across a spicy, acid-and-tannin-packed palate. Not for the weak; this is power ready to be unleashed. ——M.S.(3/1/2004)—— 92