Terroir Al Limit Priorat Les Manyes 2017

Terroir al Limit was founded in 2001 by Dominik Huber, a German-born winemaker who brought his passion for natural, expressive, and terroir-driven wines to the rugged landscape of Priorat. In just twenty years Dominik Huber has created something unique in Priorat and, arguably, in Spain as a whole. While these Catalan hills south of Barcelona are no stranger to critically fêted wine, Huber’s transparent, pared-back examples are both striking and radical in the Priorat context. His is a style of Priorat that has seen critics and other wine people scrambling to offer plaudits and comparisons. Through many years of trial and error, Huber has managed to evolve a style of Priorat that is all about mesmerising finesse, purity and freshness. With old-vine Carignan and Grenache as the conduit for the reds, Huber has now shown the wine world that Priorat wines do not have to be heavy, thick and oaky. And he has also shown that the whites of the region can be every bit as great as the reds. They are beautiful, textural and mineral whites that taste as if they’ve been tapped directly from Priorat’s rocky soils.Huber’s vineyard selection has focused on identifying high-altitude, old-vine parcels that enable the harvesting of ripe fruit while maintaining exceptional freshness. Committed to biodynamic viticulture, he picks his grapes as early as possible subject to regulations. The wines are aged exclusively in concrete, a choice that enhances their purity and elegance. As Mike Bennie from the Wine Front says they are "Next level wines. I can think of few Spanish producers making wines of such excitment, charisma and trasparent-feeling representation of place".