Product Overview
The 2019 Clos Mogador Priorat, sourced from estate vineyards, is one of the premier wines from this prestigious appellation. The nose offers a bouquet of cherries, bramble fruits, and fine, dark balsamic qualities including juniper, cloves, and pepper. The moderately deep profile full of cocoa and Tonka beans shows elegant notes of aging. The creamy mouthfeel presents sweet, fruit tannins with more pronounced red fruit flavors than on the nose with hints of violet. Clos Mogador was the first wine in all of Spain to receive the prestigious "Vi de Finca" qualification.
Varietal Composition: 49% Garnacha, 29% Cariñena, 16% Syrah, 10% Cabernet Sauvignon
Appellation: Priorat DOQ
Aging: 18 months in 300L oak casks and 2,000L foudres
Winemaker: René Barbier Meyer
99 Points - Wine Advocate
"The flagship and eponymous 2019 Clos Mogador is nothing short of phenomenal. They have done a lot of improvements in the vineyard work since the arrival of Christian, son of René Barbier, who is big-time into regenerative agriculture. They are abandoning barrels and going for more and more foudres (they started the transition in 2011, and in 2020 it was 100% foudre). As I see in other wines from 2019, the wine has lots of everything, stuffing, power and concentration but also balance. This has to be one of the finest vintages ever for Mogador; it's a compact wine with lots of aging potential. 28,000 bottles produced. It was a year of good quality and quantity." -LG, 9/30/22
