Scala Dei Pla Dels Àngels 2023

Scala Dei is one of Priorat's founding cellars, sending its first bottles to the 1878 Paris Universal Exhibition and turning fully to bottled production in 1973. Pla dels Àngels is its rosé, drawn from Garnacha Tinta grown across the cellar's own vineyards in the high country around La Morera del Montsant. Priorat's licorella, a layered slate and quartzite soil, forces vines to root deeply and yields small, concentrated berries, while warm days and cool mountain nights preserve acidity and aromatic freshness. The fruit is pressed early and fermented cool to hold colour and primary fruit, giving a pale rose-pink wine. The nose runs to wild strawberry, cherry and white peach with a floral edge, and the palate is dry and textured, carrying ripe red fruit against citrus-peel acidity and a clear saline mineral finish from the slate. At 14.5% it has more weight and grip than a typical pale rosé without losing freshness. Serve well chilled at 8 to 10 degrees in a white-wine glass.