DITS DEL TERRA

General Notes
Vineyards : 1.8 hectares
Location : Village of Torroja del Priorat
Orientation : 100 % South
Soil : Licorella negre ( Black Slate)
Grapes: Carignan 95 %

Philosophy
Priorat is an amazing phenomena(sense of place) and our aim is to
try and capture this emotion and have it being related to the final
bottle of wine. The unique Licorella soil combined with the dry and
healthy climate at high altitude allow for the grapes to slowly ripen
during the growing season, and often mere perfect grapes are
produced. The key aspect is to reduce the effect of winemaking to
minimal processing and mere natural handling of the grapes, to
enable the individual sites to express themselves.
The vineyard of Dits del terra has now some 82 years of age. (2010)

Vinification
The vinification start mainly with the hand picking of the grapes
into small little 10 kg lug boxes. Then the grapes are sorted berry for
berry, the selection process is time consuming but most important
and we want to eliminate any over – ripe or undesired grapes.. This
process is extremely time consuming and the cool room keeps the
grapes cold and fresh throughout this process.
The grapes are then places in 800 kg fermentation tanks and natural
fermentation of about three weeks follows.
After the fermentation the grapes are left for a post – fermentation
maceration of 2 / 3 weeks. The grapes are then pressed in a basket
press and the wine runs with gravity directly to the “foudre” (oval
cask). The wine is left in the oval cask for about 24 months and
bottled under gravity without fining nor filtration.

Technical Details
Production : 2538 bottles.
Yield : 15 hl / Ha
Alc. 14.45 , pH 3.45 , Acidity 6.25 g/L

Tasting Notes
The 2007 Dits del terra displays a very complex armoatic profile of
dark fruit flavours, anise and cassis as well as very dark red earthy
aromas. The wine also on the nose displays the classic graphitic
aromatic aromas associated with classic Priorat wines.
The wine has a solid centre core of tight tannin of great tention and
texture which makes for the wine to retain great fimness and
balance. It is almost as if the wine has no end in the palate……..
The acidity again forms a great importance in the overall equilibrium
of the wine. This is a massive wine from a Southern warmer slope
and the acidity was all the way through the important character in
keeping the wine together.
This is the best Dits del terra we have produced since 2001.