WINERY PROFILE | Clos Mogador “The 2000 is slightly sweeter and lower in acidity than the 1999. It is an opaque purple-colored, full-bodied, dense effort revealing notes of black fruits, liquid minerals, and flowers. There are layers and layers of…
WINERY PROFILE | Clos Mogador “The 1999 is more precise than the 2000, as well as perfumed. It is an opaque purple-colored, full-bodied, dense effort revealing notes of black fruits, liquid minerals, and flowers. There are layers and layers of…
WINERY PROFILE | Clos Mogador “Perhaps the finest Clos Mogador to date, this inky purple-colored 1998 (40% Grenache, 35% Cabernet Sauvignon, 20% Syrah, and 5% Mourvedre and Petit Verdot) boasts a huge nose of blueberries, blackberries, minerals, and vanillin. It…
WINERY PROFILE | Clos Mogador “Clos Mogador’s 1997 boasts a saturated ruby/purple color, a fat, dense, concentrated, black currant, mineral-infused character, full body, layers of concentration, sweet tannin, and a 35-second finish. Impressive and pure, with nicely integrated toasty oak,…
WINERY PROFILE | Clos Mogador “Proprietor Rene Barbier is a pioneer in the potentially super-star Tarrigona region of Priorato. The 1995 exhibits sweeter fruit and aggressive oak, but better integration of the wood than its older sibling. Full-bodied, with a…
WINERY PROFILE | Clos Mogador “Proprietor Rene Barbier is a pioneer in the potentially super-star Tarrigona region of Priorato. The 1994 is an old vine Grenache-dominated wine (about 40%), with approximately 35% Cabernet Sauvignon, 20% Syrah, and the rest Pinot…
WINERY PROFILE | Clos Mogador “This luxury cuvee, made of 20% Syrah, 40% Grenache, 35% Cabernet Sauvignon, and the rest Mourvedre, Merlot, and even Pinot Noir from a terraced vineyard yielding a microscopic 5 hectoliters per hectare, is an opaque…
WINERY PROFILE | Clos Mogador “This luxury cuvee, made from old Grenache vines, aged in small French oak casks, and bottled unfiltered, is a magnificent example of what Spain can produce at the top quality level. The wine reveals an…