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Winery: Mas Martinet Viticultors

Country / Region: Spain / DOQ Priorat

Date Winery was established: 1986

Grape Variety: Garnatxa

Alcohol Content / Volume: 15% / 750ml

First Vintage Released: 2006

Ratings: 95 pts. Robert Parket

Good to know: Els Escurçons is a Garnatxa wine made using grapes from a vineyard of the same name. Our Escurçons vineyard is classed as a Gratallops “Vi de Vila” and is to be found in the Serra Alta mountain range.

The soil is iron-rich “llicorella” or slate. The vineyard is located at an altitude of 601 meters and its south, south-west aspect gives it a strange sensation of ethereal fragility, as well as endowing the wines with mineral overtones and profound ripeness.

Els Escurçons is a time tunnel...a mirage, a reflection of a wine once was made in this exceptional vineyard (before phylloxera). 2009 was a calm, warm, exuberant, harvest, with sweet fruits and ripen skins.... whole berries, ripen stems and slightly crushed grapes while it was fermenting with wild yiest.. all of this made possible a wonderful wine!

Mas Martinet also rest some of their wines in clay amphoras aside from wood tanks and barrels. In fact, Sara Perez (daughter of Josep Lluis Perez) says “using a barrel is like hiding the wine in a coat and make up, with ceramic you have the sensation of laying it bare, I think it is the perfect connection with the terroir.. and makes the wines more slender and elongated".

Family Pérez Ovejero began their project in Mas Martinet in 1981. They studied orientation, rootstocks, varieties, climate, soil... and these studies were applied in vineyards that make today's wines: Clos Martinet, Martinet Bru and Camí Pesseroles. 20 years later, in 2000, all vineyards, olive trees and woods were managed as a one agrosystem, under the rules of agroecology. Today, they produce a wine from each vineyard, almost forgotten traditional varieties are back and they work eco-friendly agriculture so that every bottle gets to explain stories of Priorat's landscape. They are located in the Falset area, but they belong to Gratallops.