Winery: Sandra Doix Celler                                 

Region: Catalonia - D.O.Q. Priorat

Vintage: 2021                      

Bottle: 75 cl                                                    

Grape Varieties: 70% Samsó (Carignan) and 30% Garnacha

Type: Red wine oak aged

Alcohol Volume: 14% vol.

Serving Temperature:  16º-18º 

A wine from an active agriculture of a sixth generation, "Poboleda" Vi de Vila, is sourced from very old vines of indigenous varieties and produced by the oenologist and viticulturist Sandra Doix.

A wine that has its origins in an exceptional vineyard, 5 hectares of very old vines, some planted as early as 1902 and belonging to Sandra Doix's ancestors, planted with native varieties: Carignan, Black Grenache, and White Grenache.

Production:

MarLa Vi de Vila is a 70% Samsó and Carignan blend. The grapes are individually vinified, by plot and by variety, and go through a selection process both in the vineyard and the winery, on the selection table.

Tasting Notes:  

Complex and elegant, with a marked Licorella minerality, liquorice spice, and a touch of pepper, complemented by concentrated dark fruit flavours: blackberry and plum. Good acidity, rounded tannins, warm, ripe, opens out with time.

Notes: Drinking beautifully now and over the next decade.

THE WINERY

Marla is Sandra Doix's deeply personal project, based in her home town of Poboleda. A project that defends the origin of the authochthonous grape, based on the centenary carignan vines of the family vineyards for the elaboration of her high-quality wines. Sandra Doix is an oenologist and winemaker, the sixth generation of a family with a long winemaking tradition in the Priorat village of Poboleda.
The project is housed in the old family winery of Mas Doix, where she works on 5 hectares of her ancestors' very old vineyards, some of which were planted in 1902. Sandra is assisted in the project by her parents and husband, both in the vineyard and in the winery.

Sandra has created two wines in her first vintage of 2019: a Vi de Vila "Poboleda" and a Vi de Paratge. Wines that add value and defend the native grape's heritage and the singular vineyard where they come from.