Celler Escoda-Sanahuja Les Paradetes, Conca de Barbera, Spain

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The 2009 Les Paradetes, a blend of Garnacha, Carinena and Sumoll aged for one year in barrel, has a nose of black fruits, Chinese ink, wet paint, licorice and aniseed with smoked tones and echoes of graphite, peat and smoke with an overtone of used leather, quite animal if you ask me, and a seamless palate with high acidity, persistent flavors and quite a long after taste. This is a good food wine. Drink now-2016. Joan Ramon Escoda started this project in 2003 and has 8.5 hectares of vineyards in Conca de Barbera. His wines are produced in the “natural” style, without addition of sulfur. As is often the case I find that whites behave better in this style. Importer: Vin de Terra Imports, Springfield, VA; tel. (703) 731-2058

The 2007 Les Paradetes is a blend of Sumoll Tinto (a grape of which there are less than 70 hectares remaining), Garnacha and Carinena. It has a well-defined nose with baked cherry, fennel, truffle and dried herbs. The palate is fresh and vibrant on the entry. It is woven with crisp tannins and comes across as very fresh and lively with red cherries and wild strawberry. It has a crisp, tannic, brittle finish with garrigue on the aftertaste. This is a wine that takes you straight to the Mediterranean on a balmy August evening. I am uncertain whether the wines of this Conca de Barbera estate continue to be imported into the United States. Having tasted the wines in the UK, they should be. Escoda-Sanahuja produces natural wines under biodynamic principles along a closed system, i.e., there are horses, cows and poultry running around and “doing their bit.” The wines are unfiltered, not fined or stabilized and no sulphur is used. Having worked in the trade, I am fully aware of the issues faced when customers return bottles that have oxidized, so I can only report on the bottles that I tasted myself, which were generally outstanding and individualistic. Winemaker Joan Escoda’s wines are not for everybody’s taste, but I found them endlessly fascinating and the bottom line is...they were delicious. Importer: Jonas Gustafsson, Vin de Terra Imports, Springfield, VA; tel. (703) 731-2058; www.indigowine.com in the UK.

The 2006 Les Paradetes is a blend of Garnacha and Carinena aged for 12 months in 50% new French oak. Dark ruby-colored, it offers up aromas of scorched earth, crushed rock, leather, spice box, black cherry, and plum. On the palate it has excellent volume, a racy personality, with cassis and kirsch flavors making an appearance. This lengthy offering has 2-3 years of cellaring potential and will deliver optimal drinking from 2012 to 2018. Celler Escoda-Sanahuja’s 15 acre estate, founded in 2003, is organically farmed using biodynamic principles. In the winery no sulfur is used unless absolutely necessary and the wines are bottled without fining or filtration. Importer: Jonas Gustafsson, Vin de Terra Imports, Springfield, VA; tel. (703) 731-2058