Clos Mogador

In Gratallops, the passion of René Barbier for Grenache, stimulated the development of a spectacular wine which soon attracted the attention of Robert Parker. This wine, named “Clos Mogador”, has quickly become the lagship of Priorat wines. A beautiful wine, full of promises but still evolving. The grapes of Carignan, Syrah, Cabernet Sauvignon, blended to Grenache (80 years old vines with a yield of max 2dl by square metre) are producing a wine reminiscent of blueberry, blackberry, currant and plum, a composition that thrilled Parker to award the, rarely achieved, grade of 98/100. The harvested grains are sorted by hand, one by one, before moving them into a vertical manual press, more than a century old, recovered from an old cellar. In this vineyard, the tanks are made of wood or cement, never steel. Viniication takes place in open barrels and the wines are not iltered. In summary, the Master of Mogador revives the practices of a forgotten age, where the winemaker was working daily in his vines.