IBERIAN BARGAINS WORTH AGEING
''Wines that deserve a place in your cellar''.
Joan d'Anguera, Altaroses Montsant Grenache 2020
€ 25 - 14.5% Alc.
'Theatre of Wine'
Montsant, just outside the Priorat apellation, also tends to be better value than its more famous neighbour. Ferran Centelles, Spanish specialist for Jancis Robinson.com, particularly recommends the Montsants of ''super-top producers such as Vinyes Domènech or Joan D'Anguera''. He also describes the full-bodied reds based on the Monastrell grape, such as those from Alicante, Almansa, Bullas, Jumilla, Manchuela, Valencia and Yecla, as having ''latent promise''.
''The reds of Catalonia can be aged just as long as their counterparts from Bordeaux''.
Jancis Robinson
Financial Times Weekend
May 11/12 2024
