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Celler Zaumau

Producer: Celler Zaumau
Style: Red
Vintage: 2008
Grapes: Garnacha, Samso
Region: Spain < Priorat

PRICE: $17

Tasting Notes and Food Pairing Suggestions

  • Grilled skirt steak and roasted yam wedges
  • Vietnamese pho soup
  • Roasted eggplant, fennel salami, and goat cheese panini

Let me start by saying that this is not your typical brawny, muscular Priorat (although who doesn't love those!). Vinified and aged in stainless steel only (no oak), this knockout bottling grown on the region's famous licorella soils (huge chunks of slate that look like broken pieces of sidewalk) is incredibly sassy and light on its feet, showing stunning clarity and purity of fruit. With a very floral, violet-filled nose, and brambly black raspberry fruit, this is pure deliciousness in a glass and is priced in a way that you can indulge in it every day of the week. That's very hard to say about most Priorats.

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