Grenache Wine

Wine Spectator, 95 points: Pretty, with cassis and warm raspberry puree notes carried by silky but persistent structure, while rooibos tea, blood orange and incense accents fill in the background. The streamlined finish pulls everything...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC, 91 points: Brilliant ruby-red. Spicy raspberry and cherry aromas are complicated by white pepper, lavender and pungent herbs. Pliant red fruit flavors are deepened by candied licorice and bitter chocolate nuances, with a spicy...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 94 points: The black grape-based Cazes 1962 Rivesaltes is pungently scented with candied grapefruit rind, cocoa, cinnamon, and quinine, its palate performance correspondingly mingling the rich torrefactionwith the citric and...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 98 points: The 2014 Les Manyes was bottled a little earlier, in June 2016. In many wineries in Priorat, 2013 is clearly better than 2014, but it's not that clear in the case here, and you have to take it wine by wine. In the case of...

Wine Enthusiast, 90 points: This brand is winemaker Heidi Peterson Barrett’s ode to Rhône, as well as a place for her own Bordeaux-varietal wines. The first vintage of this 100% varietal wine on its own, it’s soft and supple with a tannic backbone...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 93 points: A blend of 80% Grenache, 15% Syrah and a splash of Carignan, the 2014 Cotes Catalanes Grenache D66 IGP spent ten months in roughly 30% new barrels. This inky colored, downright sexy 2014 offers terrific notes of...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 96 points: 96+ Sourced from a single vineyard in Greenock, the 2013 Western Ridge Grenache Carignan is a medium garnet color with hint of purple. The nose reveals very pretty kirsch, roses and red currant preserves notes with a...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 95 points: 95+ Similar to the Dits del Terra but from a north-facing slope, the 2013 Arbossar is pure Cariñena from an ancient vineyard planted around 90 years ago, and it is always a fresher and more floral style of Cariñena...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 95 points: The white grape-based Cazes 1949 Rivesaltes displays spiciness, verve, and remarkable sheer juiciness at the same time as a complex array of dark and decadent elements. Peat, tobacco, black tea, and decadent forest floor...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 95 points: The 2014 La Dama, as with the El Terroir bottling, is produced with Garnacha grapes from vines planted starting in 1903. They told me they consider 2014 a beautiful vintage, healthy and balanced (although the organic and...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 93 points: The white grape-based Cazes 1945 Rivesaltes, smells of smoke-infused dried figs as well as saline, alkaline sea breeze. Dried fig and complexly floral honey engage with smoky, saline mineral nuances in a sustained...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 94 points: The 2012 Arroyo del Tórtolas is one of their single-vineyard reds, in this case it’s a north facing-slope of 1.25 hectares, planted with 2,200 plants per hectare that are 65 years old. The soil is quite thin and poor...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 91 points: The deep ruby/purple-colored 2009 Chateauneuf du Pape (90% tank-aged Grenache and 10% barrel-aged Syrah from 65-year-old vines) appears to have resolved all the tannins that stood out last year. Notes of black cherry...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 96 points: I think the 2013 Espectacle del Montsant suffered when tasted next to its 'cousins' from Clos Mogador. This pure Garnacha from old vines in the village of La Figuera in Montsant showed a waterfall of red fruit and violets...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 93 points: The 2012 Garnacha de Viña Bonita is pure old-vine Garnacha (87 years) from poor, compact and shallow granite soils, from a single plot at 735 meters altitude where they keep a vegetal cover to provide some organic matter...