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2003 Rotllan Torra Tirant

Proprietary Blend: 750ml

$64.99

about this wine:

This wine is named for Tirant Lo Blanc, a heroic medieval knight who responded to the feudal chivalry ideals and principles proper to the Middle Age. His heroic deeds range from medieval tournaments to unceasing wars and maids and princesses rescuing.

This hero is strong and clever but also refined and elegant; he symbolizes a dark-colored wine with substance-- huge, with structure and richness in tannins, strong and powerful but also subtle and exquisite.

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points awarded:
ST 93 WA 96

96 points,

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, February 2007

The 2003 Tirant is a similar blend as the Amadis. Fermented in foudre and aged in French oak for 12 months, it is a more refined version of the Amadis with more complexity and elegance, but nevertheless still a beast of a wine. The purple/black color is followed by aromas of melting tar, blueberries, blackberries, and a touch of vanillin. The wine is dense and rich with layers of flavor, the tannin well hidden by the fruit. Give this bad boy another 4-6 years of cellaring and drink it for 15 years thereafter.


93 points,

Stephen Tanzer's IWC, September 2006

($87) Light red. Highly perfumed aromas of raspberry, strawberry, redcurrant and minerals, with complicating notes of tobacco and mocha. Pure, balanced and light on its feet but utterly packed with deep, concentrated red fruits. Finishes fresh and pure, with fine, almost sweet tannins and superb length. A wine of remarkable clarity, sweetness and balance.


96 points,

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, February 2007

The 2003 Tirant is a similar blend as the Amadis. Fermented in foudre and aged in French oak for 12 months, it is a more refined version of the Amadis with more complexity and elegance, but nevertheless still a beast of a wine. The purple/black color is followed by aromas of melting tar, blueberries, blackberries, and a touch of vanillin. The wine is dense and rich with layers of flavor, the tannin well hidden by the fruit. Give this bad boy another 4-6 years of cellaring and drink it for 15 years thereafter.


93 points,

Stephen Tanzer's IWC, September 2006

($87) Light red. Highly perfumed aromas of raspberry, strawberry, redcurrant and minerals, with complicating notes of tobacco and mocha. Pure, balanced and light on its feet but utterly packed with deep, concentrated red fruits. Finishes fresh and pure, with fine, almost sweet tannins and superb length. A wine of remarkable clarity, sweetness and balance.


About Winery

Rottlan Torra is a winery based in Torroja del Priorat, Spain. Jordi Rottlan Torra founded this winery with his family in 1984. One of the pioneers of the new wave of winemakers who entered this region, he had the vision to see the possibilities that existed. After having spent considerable time working in and around the bodegas in the Penedes region he realized that the mountains where his family vacationed contained the primary materiel for the making of world class wines.  He began buying land planted with ancient vineyards, some over one hundred yars old. The winery is located in a former monastary of the small village of Torroja del Priorat.  This ancient area boasts steep hillside vineyards of Grenache, Carignan, and Cabernet Sauvignon at 2000 feet elevation.

In 1997 Rotllan Torra exploded on the Spanish wine making scene with the release of the Amadis 1995, a wine from hundred-year-old vines.  It was named by the top two publications in the Spanish wine industry as one of the top wines of the year. 

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