Cérvoles Colors 2009 is made from a blend of Tempranillo 45%, Grenache 20%, Cabernet Sauvignon 15%, Merlot 10% and Syrah 10%. Manual harvest. Aging during 8 months in French oak barrels. Vineyards located at the region of Les Garrigues.
Tasting notes: Cherry red colour, purple rim. On nose, notes of berries, minerals, cocoa and citrus. On palate, balanced, ripe tannins, lingering, fruity and mineral.
What the critics say...
Robert Parker: 88 points(01/05/2011)
It offers excellent density and richness in its savory black fruits. Hints of smoke, underbrush, and black fruit confiture add complexity to its seamless finish. It is meant for drinking now and over the next 8 years.
Peñin Guide: 87 points(01/01/2012)
Dark cherry red colour. On nose, fine cocoa, expressive, elegant, varietal, soaked fruit. On palate, fresh, powerful, tasty, creamy.
In 1997 and after an intense research of properties and suitable microclimates for the implantation of new vineyards within the zone of the Denomination of Origin Costers del Segre, the Cusiné family, one time analyzed the possibilities and discovered the great characteristics of the vines and... wines of La Pobla de Cérvoles, acquires the present property of Cérvoles Celler.
On the northern slopes of Montsant and, protected by the Sierra de la Llena, range lies La Pobla de Cérvoles, a township administratively integrated in the region of Les Garrigues and the Denomination of Origin Costers del Segre. This region has a complex geography with numerous hills and valleys winding their way to the north and rises to the south to meet the Sierra de la Llena. This marks the border between Lleida and Tarragona, simultaneously separating the region from the Priorat and La Conca de Barberà.
Cérvoles Celler is a property of 102 hectares, with 32 hectares of vineyards of the varieties cabernet sauvignon, tempranillo, merlot, grenache, chardonnay and macabeo, planted mainly between years 1960 and 1989, distributed in 10 different plantations. These have different slopes and sunlight all around the area, enjoying a very smooth climate in spite of the hardness of the zone. Located between 700 and 750 meters of altitude they have an average of 450 mm of annual rains, suitable amount to quality grape growing. The texture of grounds is franc (franc-slimy, franc-gravely), with different gravel levels. The permeability of this underground gravel allows a good drainage, as well as the clays provide considerable humidity, forming altogether a good hydro-balance.
After the foundation of the company Cérvoles Celler, it starts a vast reconduction of the vineyard with the objective of increase the foliar surface by kilogram of grape simultaneously that improves the wine-making methodology to obtain the best quality of wines.
The great personality that transfers the microclimate to the wines and its great quality, was the main reason to decide to contribute to the necessary means and knowledge to transform a company and vines into a high quality brand in the international market.
Fruit of the characteristics of the vineyards and the zone in which they are based, they have high degrees of alcohol, extract, color, and the most important, a pronounced and common personality in all the cultivated varieties.
These virtues allow them to play between limits to be discovering, year after year, all the potential of quality which their grapes have. Nowadays the wines of Cérvoles are member of the exclusive group Grandes Pagos de España (Great Growths of Spain), a wine estates association from all of Spain's regions, united to defend and promote the culture of single-estate wines, produced on specific vineyards and reflecting the unique personality of their soils, subsoils and climates. This is an ages-old concept of quality wine, which it has been recently recovered.
Alcohol abuse can be dangerous.
