Château Haut Marbuzet, Saint Estephe 2020 Côtes-du-Rhône-Villages

Château Haut Marbuzet, Saint Estephe 2020 Côtes-du-Rhône-Villages"The 2020 Haut Marbuzet is showing very well in bottle, offering up aromas of blackberries and plum preserve mingled with hints of pencil shaving, rose petal, licorice and lilac. Medium to full bodied, it's rich and fleshy, its broad attack segueing into an enveloping mid palate framed by powdery, youthfully firm tannins, concluding with a nicely defined finish. It can't quite match the energy and elegance of 2019, but it's a terrific effort that

this exclusive region includes 39 communes laid out before the gradual ascent to the majestic Pyrenees

The plot consists of a deep vein of fine clay on a limestone base

orange rind

At the time Scala Dei was the only single privately owned estate exporting the wines of Priorat

the views open up to show off the vineyard which is the essence of Priorat

Marta Rovira Carbonell introduced organic farming methods to the estate and is the current director of the company

with an extraordinary past

It is kept on the skins for three weeks in 20 temperature-controlled wooden vats

the cultivation and caring of vines avoiding artifcial fertilizers with herds of sheep that keep the land clean

new ambitions emerge and innovative projects grow and develop

"From around 2 hectares of vines on the plateau of Pomerol

and were certified organic in 2017