The Clos Mogador 2008 is Garnacha (40%), Carignan (22%), Cabernet Sauvignon (20%) and Syrah (18%).
Rene Barbier is doing a job well done, year after year, producing one of the best Priorat there. No doubt a great wine by betting the vast majority of large national and international critics.
What the critics say...
Robert Parker: 96 points(01/05/2011)
The red wines begin with the flagship 2008 Clos Mogador. It is made up of 40% Garnacha, 20% Carinena, with the balance Cabernet Sauvignon and Syrah. Dense purple in color, it sports an expansive bouquet of liquid minerality, wood smoke, game, Asian spices, truffle, and blackberry. Opulent on the palate with layered fruit and precision balance, this loaded Priorat provides a drinking window extending from 2013 to 2023.
Proensa Guide: 99 points(01/01/2011)
Evolution: more than 2015 Food: spicy meat stews, red meat. 40% Grenache, 22% Carignan, 20% Cabernet Sauvignon, 18% Syrah, 18 months in oak. Large, expressive and assembly, hard, round, long nerve, great future. Complex nose, with many nuances over fruit base. Palate powerful, full-bodied, fresh and fine, tasty, long.
Peñin Guide: 94 points(01/01/2012)
Intense cherry red colour. On nose, powerful, ripe fruit, frutal expression, strawberry, mineral. On palate, tasty, fleshy, round and long.
Pairing: Aged Cheese, Game Animals, Grilled Red Meats, Legume, Roasts, Stews.
Robert Parker has said of Clos Mogador that the wines are ´stunning examples of what Spain can produce but so rarely does´. Made from Grenache, Cabernet Sauvignon, Syrah and Carignan, this is truly an outstanding wine. The vineyards are are planted on steep schist hillsides, where very old vine... Garnacha has learnt to struggle against the aridity by sending roots 25 metres down in search of water and nutrients. The average yield works out at less than10 hectolitres per hectare.
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