Mas Martinet Priorat Martinet Bru 2021
(Priorat, Spain) - [WA 94]

About the Winery:

In 1981, Mas Martinet, a life project and a dream come true, was born. The brand is fruit of the passion of Josep Lluís Pérez and Montse Ovejero for knowledge, for the method. It means transfer, generational replacement, continuity, persistence, back and forth process. The whole family involved in the project, along with a great team , turn Mas Martinet into a sustainable, humane and drinkable project. PHILOSOPHY: We are always looking for new points of view, with a culture based on balance, sustainability and harmony with nature. We are committed to tradition, to the environment and to people. We recover some varieties and reinvent some processes and materials under the principles of agroecology and minimum intervention with the maximum respect for the people who work on it

About the Wine:

Martinet Bru is the door to Priorat. It is a wine of our times, more accessible in every sense.

The estates where it comes from receive the south-west wind called garbinada, a humid sea breeze known for cooling the last hours of the hottest summer afternoons and helping to obtain slower and more extended ripening.

A modern, nice, appetising and fresh wine, but with the typical structure and minerality of our region. The most drinkable slope in Priorat.

Tasting Notes:

 Forward and elegant wine, lovely fresh nose of integrated black fruits and oak, overlaid with minerals and hints of spices in a warm deliciously smooth, fresh, friendly wine, marked tannins and licorice notes on its long lingering finish.

Factsheet:
COUNTRY: Spain
REGION: Catalunya
APPELLATION: Priorat
CEPAGE: 30% Syrah, 28% Carignan, 19% Grenache, 16% Merlot, 7% Cabernet Sauvignon
WINEMAKING: We mix the whole grapes and stems in vats. Cofermentation of Grenache-Syrah-Merlot, and Carignan-Syrah-Cabernet. 
AGING: 12 months in 4500L wooden vats & 300L barrels

94 Points - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate:
"The 2021 Martinet Bru was also bottled and ready for tasting. 2021 is a year of very good potential in Priorat. There is great tension here, and the wine has freshness, complexity and depth, something special, but it was not easy, as they got a lot of rain in September. It's elegant and balanced, the tannins are very fine and the wine feels very relaxed (quite remarkable, as it was recently bottled). It has to be one of the finest vintages of Martinet Bru. I find great purity here. Sara Pérez told me the 2021s seem to dance... 2023-2029."