- Snapshot
- Vintage: 2010
- Bottle sizes: 750 ML
- Country: Spain
- Region: Montsant
- Appellation: Montsant
- Wine type: Red
- Varietals: Red Blend
- Varietal notes: 80% Garnacha, 20% Carinena
- Organic: Practicing
- Vineyard: 10 to 40 year old vines.
- Orientation: 250-300 meters in elevation.
- Soil: clay and limestone with some slate
- Viticulture: organic farming, hand harvesting in very small boxes
- Vinification: traditional fermentation using native yeasts, no acidification, no cold stabalization, no fining and light filtering.
- Aging: 5 months in French oak that is 1-5 years old.
- Production: 1,250 cases
- Ratings
- Publication: Wine advocate
- Rating: 89
- The 2010 Sere Barrica is a blend of 80% Garnacha and 20% Carinena from 20-year-old vines grown on calcareous soil. The wine, which sees aging in American and French oak, has a ripe raspberry, wild strawberry and coca-scented bouquet with a touch of wild mint. The palate is medium-bodied, with ripe, grainy tannins and a lovely core of ripe blackberry and cassis fruit. The finish is fresh and well-delineated, and overall this constitutes a classy Montsant red with a smile-inducing price. Drink now-2016. Vendrell Rived was created in 2000, one year before the D.O. of Montsant. Their 12 hectares of mainly old vine Garnacha and Carinena are located between Marca and Capcanes in three separate plots with unique terroirs.
- Publication: Other
- Rating: 91
- The 2010 Sere from Vendrell Rived is a lovely red comprised of a blend of eighty percent Garnacha and twenty percent Samso (Carignan), with the vast majority of the vines forty years of age. The winery and vineyards fall in the southern end of Montsant, very close to the Priorat border. The 2010 Sere, which tips the scales at a very moderate fourteen percent alcohol, offers up a lovely nose of red and black raspberries, meaty overtones, a fine base of stony soil, woodsmoke and a nice touch of coffee grounds. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied, complex and beautifully balanced, with just a touch of backend tannin, lovely focus and midpalate depth and a very long, classy finish. Really a lovely bottle. 2011-2017. 91. John Gilman