Pardas Collita Roja 2011

The 2011 Collita Roja is produced from Sumoll grapes from a single vineyard of 0.72 hectares in St. Llorenc d'Hortons on chalky soils, planted in 1949. The wine has a bright ruby color and a shiny nose of bright red fruits intermixed with strong balsamic aromas of wild herbs, intensely Mediterranean with lots of character, and a tasty, light to medium-bodied palate with piercing licorice and ripe fruit flavors that transport you to a Mediterranean forest. With time, more continental and Atlantic notes develop in the glass, which give the wine more depth and complexity. I loved it. Drink now-2020. Score - 93. (Luis Gutierrez, erobertparker.com, Feb. 2014)