Costers del Priorat - ‘Pissarres’ (Samsó and Garnatxa) - Priorat, Spain that breaks through that infertile

that breaks through that infertile volcanic crust in order to get to the organic matter that nourishes it

A blend of Grenache

We all are somewhere on that bell curve

With a latitude roughly equivalent to the border of California and Oregon

Barbaresco is considered to be one of the world’s best wine regions with proper examples starting in the $45-$50 range and accelerating quickly from there for the more famous producers

Costers del Priorat - ‘Pissarres’ (Samsó and Garnatxa) - Priorat, Spain that breaks through that infertileThe Priorat region about 90 miles Southwest of Barcelona in Catalonia has a tradition of wine production dating back to the Romans, but after the Spanish Civil War it was almost completely abandoned due to the steep, treacherous and therefore labor intensive nature of the vineyards. Grape vines are hardy, however, and many very old Garnatxa (Grenache) and Sams (Cariena in the rest of Spain, Carignan in France) vines survived until the late 1980s when