Clos i Terrasses - Laurel Priorat 2022 (750ml)
Price: $78.00
| Producer | Clos i Terrasses |
| Country | Spain |
| Region | Catalonia [Catalunya] |
| Varietal | Grenache |
| Vintage | 2022 |
| Sku | 10727 |
| Size | 750ml |
Wine Advocate: 95 Points
The 2022 Laurel has the grapes from the younger vines but still not the ones from Manyetes that will contribute to this wine in 2023 for the first time. This is quite aromatic young tender and peachy attractive. She finds this to be a classical vintage balanced and ripe without excess and the tannins are polished and elegant. In 2022 they used a little less Cabernet so the wine is mostly Garnacha with almost 20% Syrah and perhaps 3% Cabernet Sauvignon. It matured mostly in concrete oak vats and some 30 barrels but some 20% of the volume matured in amphorae. She's not crazy about amphorae; she finds that they close the wines. It's medium-bodied has a fine texture and feels elegant and light with a lot of finesse. She doesn't want too long macerations with the grapes from the younger vines but it has clout. It comes in at 15% alcohol has very fine tannins and comes through as balanced and civilized quite approachable already with mellow acidity. She's very careful that the tannins don't have too much astringency. 23000 bottles were filled in May 2024. Tasted 10 months after bottling the wine is very drinkable. This is a young wine that is ever changing with the new vines and it will change even more in the coming years. Daphne Glorian was quite happy with her 2022s after the 2021 which had the snowstorm and the drought that started in the winter of 2021/2022 but the vines had enough water and behaved quite well. It was a lot worse with the effect of the accumulated lack of rain in 2023 and it didn't rain until November 2024. There's 30% less volume in 2023 but in 2022 they got more normal yields 3200 bottles of Erasmus and 23000 of Laurel though the Manyetes vines and the new plantings of young vines are still giving low yields. Daphne feels the wines are balanced with no edges. I found them to be very elegant and polished sleek without the nerve of the 2021s. For her the 2022s are closer to the 2020s. It's a very drinkable vintage. I also had a sample of the 2023. Published: May 01 2025
