Winery: Giol Porrera

Region: Porrera - DOQ Priorat

Vintage: 2021

Bottle: 75cl

Grape Varieties: 30% Garnacha and 70% Carignan

Type: Red Wine aged in oak

Alcohol by volume: 14.5% vol.

Serving Temperature: 14 – 16º

First wine by Bodegas Giol Porrera, the project of winegrower and winemaker, Jonàs Macip.

Production: 

All the grapes for the 2021 vintage come from the Paratge de Mas d'en Caçador old-vine vineyard; these grapes are normally reserved for the elaboration of the winery's flagship wine, Giol Mas d'en Caçador, which hasn't been produced this vintage.

Giol Porrera is a blend of the autochthonous varieties Garnatxa Negra and Carinyena, sourced exclusively from own grapes, carefully hand selected from vineyards in Costers (steep slopes) and llicorella soils, "Mas d’En Caçador" and "Les Sentius". Jonàs counted on the oenological expertise and advice of Bixente and Diane Oçafrain (of ex-Bodegas Mas Alta) to create a wine that captures the essence of the Priorat region while also being beautifully crafted.

Fermented in steel vats of different sizes and aged in French oak barrels for 12 months. Bottled in April 2023.

Production of 3910 bottles.

Tasting Notes:  

Scented nose of raspberry and cherry fruit and some toasted notes coming through. Fruit on the palate, elegant and wide, good ripeness, soft-textured, silky tannins lightly spiced, finishing long with a good balance between fruit and wood.

This young winery, Bodegas Giol Porrera, is the project of winegrower and winemaker, Jonàs Macip, who, together with the full support of his family, has created a small family-run operation in the heart of the Priorat, in the village of Porrera, to elaborate their own wines from the grapes they have always grown and had previously sold to other producers. The winery was born in 2018, and their vintage was released to the market in 2020, in the midst of the difficulty and uncertainty that the pandemic times have brought.