2015 Pedra De Guix
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This rich white offers baked apple, toasted almond and candied ginger flavors, but stays firm and lively, thanks to orange peel acidity and light tannins. Spicy and long. Pedro Ximénez, Macabeo and Garnatxa Blanca. Drink now. 51 cases imported.
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Luis Gutiérrez, Wine Advocate
James Suckling
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The white 2015 Pedra de Guix is a blend of one-third each of Pedro Ximenez, Garnacha Blanca and Macabeo from old vines on different soils and different villages. There is always a touch of skin contact and some controlled oxidation in the whites here, as it gives them character. The whites here also have the structure to stand up to food—they are more food wines than refreshing whites, even if they are fresh. This is ripe and open but very precise, and it seems to have better delineation. The palate is dry and shows some austerity. It has beautiful flintstone notes and a salinity that give it freshness and character. For Dominik Huber, it's a wine that shows a side of Priorat that is not easy to show with reds. Each grape aged separately in 500-liter oak barrels, and the blend had a further 12 months in foudre before it was bottled. 4,600 bottles were filled in May 2017.
This wine shows a beautiful density and freshness with waxy, dried apple and honey notes. Full body, dense and very structured with a dried fruit and salty finish that is long and intense. Layered and beautiful. More like a red than a white. Serious. Full white Burgundy combined with sherry treatment in ageing. 5,000 bottles made.
About the producer

Created by Dominik Huber and Eben Sadie in 2001, Terroir al Limit works with old vines and minimal intervention to make a fresher style of Priorat. Now made exclusively by Dominik Huber, its top wines are the single-site Cariñena Les Tosses and Garnacha Les Manyes.