The purple-colored 2005 Sentius is 48% Garnacha, 10% Carinena, and the balance Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, and Syrah aged for 15 months in French oak. It presents an enticing perfume of liquid mineral, smoke, incense, blueberry, and blackberry. This leads to a full-bodied, dense, layered wine with rich black fruit, mineral notes, good balance, and a lengthy finish. It will benefit from 2-3 years of cellaring and provide optimal drinking from 2011 to 2020. Importer: Jorge Ordonez, Fine Estates From Spain, Dedham, MA; tel. (781) 461-5767

This elegant red delivers expressive morello, garrigue, licorice and tobacco flavors on a sinuous frame. Balanced and harmonious, expressive and long. Drink now through 2014. 400 cases made.??–TM??Region: Spain / Priorat Select to Add

Joan Simo had great success in 2005. This wine is excellent and the higher-end Les Eres is outstanding, so bottom line: buy Simo from 2005. Getting back to Sentius, a so-called “second” wine, it is dark, sexy, smooth and shows true Priorat accents of schist, coffee, cola and berry aromas. The flavors are flashy and fresh, with mammoth black cherry, plum and coffee virtually jumping from the glass. A very deep and balanced wine to drink now through 2013.——M.S.(4/1/2009)—— 92