Wine Advocate: 96 Points
The 2021 Laurel the second wine from Clos Erasmus was produced with grapes from younger vines between five and 40 years old and is a blend of 80% Garnacha 11% Syrah and 9% Cabernet Sauvignon. The grapes were cooled down for 24 hours before sorting and destemming and then put in the vat where they warmed up and started fermenting naturally. They did a soft vinification with short pumping overs to avoid extraction and the fermentation lasted two to three weeks followed by four weeks of maceration. The wine matured in oak vat barrel and amphorae for 18 months. It's super aromatic floral and expressive clean and elegant delicate and ethereal. It has a velvety palate that is nicely textured seamless elegant and balanced and with a focused clean long finish. I see the meaty side of Syrah here. It has 14.5% alcohol with a pH of 3.3. The oak is completely integrated despite the fact that the wine is very young. 28000 bottles produced. It was bottled in May 2023. The beautiful vineyard of Solanes?4.7 hectares located in El Lloar and planted in the Natural Park under the cliffs of the Serra de Sant Pau?is coming into production. With that Daphne Glorian has close to 26 hectares mostly in Gratallops and she bought a large vineyard in Manyetes from René Barbier. She's made a white from three hectares there but they still don't know what they are going to do with the red grapes?they might contribute to the Laurel red or be bottled separately. She was very happy about 2021 about which she told me that "after 2019 and 2020 which were pretty much in line with what we expect in the Priorat in terms of climate generally warm and dry 2021 was a complete outlier. Sixty centimeters of snow in January followed by regular rains during the growing season make it a 'cold-climate' wine. The wines are delicate flowery with strong acidity and tremendous aging potential. We also got volumes we had not seen since 1997 around 23-24 hectoliters per hectare thanks to good conditions at the time of flowering." Published: May 16 2024
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