Priorat DOQ showcase in Espai Priorat 2017
Perinet hosted many industry professionals during the three-day event, showcasing our 2015 wines and the facilities including our vineyards and the modern winery.
"Our maximum hope is to see how grows the concern by an even better future. And how individual and collective initiatives far from being conservative are becoming more and more interesting and avant-garde." points out Salus Àlvarez DOQ Priorat President during the presentation of the gathering.
We have been collecting some opinions and feedbacks from the attending personalities in Espai Priorat, here we share the ones we found more interesting:
"... winemakers have separately and collectively searched for their wines authentic voices against the pressure of market trends, economic realities, and style preferences, especially from certain influential critics whose baritones now, thankfully, wane. Debates over-ripeness versus elegance, new versus used oak, modern versus traditional winemaking and farming techniques, irrigation versus dry farming, and using international varieties like Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon versus showcasing the native grapes of Grenache and Cariñena, persist, with the addition of a new concern: climate change. But my takeaway from interviews and tastings across the week is this: having spent the better part of a rapid ascent to the top looking in all directions, producers are now refocused inward -- to the truth of their land, their fruit, and themselves -- to answer these questions. And from introspection Springs wine with soul."
by Lauren Mowery, (Forbes).
"... the increase in the knowledge of the territory, the singularity of the twelve villages in which DOQ Priorat's wine production is divided, as well as the increase in quality, become new factors that increase the value, knowledge and also the consumption of the Priorat wines."
by Sarah Jane Evans MW, Master of Wine.
"The Priorat is a land of miscegenation, every few steps you have a different horizon. It is rediscovering the origins"
by Pep Palau, gastronomic expertise.
"Biodiversity is the essence of Priorat"
by Ruth Troyano, wine journalist.
Perinet encourages DOQ Priorat to organize more events like this that promote the region with the involvement of the large representation of wineries that have taken part.
