2023 vintage
Priorat Garnatxa-Carinyena
Priorat, Spain · Winemaker: Revealed on enrollment · 30 members
What happened
The vintage, in five moments.
- Driest spring in twelve years — old vines held, young vines stressed.
- The young-vine cuvée was dropped entirely in 2023. Only the old-vine Carinyena and the Garnatxa-led blend made it.
- Pick staggered across three weeks in late September, all by hand on the terraces.
- Whole-cluster Carinyena fermented in old wood for the first time — the winemaker called it a bet that needed taking.
- Bottled March 2025. 186 cases total.
The final wine
What we bottled.
The 2023 old-vine Carinyena is the wine the winemaker wanted to make ten years ago and couldn't. Dark fruit, black pepper, a graphite streak from the llicorella, a tannin that resolves slower than Grenache would. The Garnatxa-led blend is lighter — strawberry and rosemary, brighter acid. Members got four of each at Vintner tier.
From the Crew
“The winemaker dropped a whole cuvée. No marketing spin, just 'the wine isn't there this year, I won't bottle it.' That was worth the membership fee alone.”
Still hosting
Revealed on enrollment is back for another vintage.