100% Garnacha.

Scala Dei Masdeu is een wijn uit Priorat

Scala Dei Masdeu heeft 16 maanden houtrijping ondervonden. 
Scala Dei Sant Antoni  is een karakter volle rode wijn. Zwart fruit, "roasted tones", een vleugje kruiden, viooltjes, mooie tannines en een mooie afdronk.
Uitstekende combinatie met rundvlees, lam, stoofschotels, wild, ossehaas, geroosterd/gegrild vlees, jamon en harde kazen.
Goed op dronk maar kan zich nog tot 2030 verder ontwikkelen.
De optimale drinktemperatuur voor Scala Dei Masdeui is 16°C - 18°C.

The Wine Advocate:

"I found the 2013 Masdeu unusually heady and with a ripeness I didn't expect from 2013. It is pure Garnacha from their highest altitude vineyard at 800 meters, an east-facing, terraced plot that names the wine and was planted in 1945 on limestone-rich, very white soils. The grapes were harvested in the third week of October and the full clusters were used to ferment the grapes with indigenous yeasts in cement tanks. Fifty-five percent of the volume was kept in cement, 25% in a 1,400-liter oak foudre, and the remaining 15% in one 600-liter oak barrel and in a clay amphora that was buried in sand inside a wooden box for 16 months. There are some intriguing smoky notes, echoes of malted cereals like I've seen in some ripe and heady Garnachas from elsewhere, and lots of decayed violets that make it feel a little decadent. The palate is sharp, a little too austere, showing abundant chalky tannins and a dry finish. This feels riper than the last time I tasted it. It developed more earthy notes with time. Very good, but a little disconcerting."

Luis Gutierrez, Oct 2016