castell d'encus quest 2017

"inspiration, knowledge and intuition led two decades ago the brilliant winemaker and winemaker raül bobet to the talarn highlands in the lleida pyrenees. its vineyards were planted in 2001 as part of the geoparc orígens, which, since april 2018, is part of unesco’s global geopark network. it is a territory of great geological wealth, but also natural and historical. i was looking for in this site not only a high altitude above sea level, but also a terroir with a continental climate (with a high thermal contrast between day and night) in which to create wines with the minimum possible intervention, with very high acidity and great elegance and refinement. give up the opulence of wood and fruit. it works with indigenous yeasts and does not clarify or filter their wines, to which it adds very low doses of sulfurous. she says on the website of her cellar, castell d'encus, that «the project is being prepared over several decades of learning and meditation». it also reveals that ""it is nothing more than the pursuit of a dream through a long path - without end - which represents a challenge and, at the same time, an obsession to make elegant and fresh wines through research and experimentation, and which describe our landscape, our climate, our customs..."". castell d encus small producer of pyrenees, offers us this rich red composed of cabernet sauvignon, cabernet franc, small verdot, merlot. it is an intense wine, with notes of leather and blakberries, on the palate we will find velvety tannins with cinamon and blackberry."