Terroir Al Limit
Priorat Arbossar
Priorat
2019

The producer

Despite being a relative latecomer to Priorat, Dominik Huber arrived in 2001 and within twenty years has created wines that are heralded even within the context of the very best of Priorat. Farming according to organically and biodynamic principles, the vineyards rise from 350 to 800 meters. These are wines of amazing freshness and finesse, wines that speak of their terroir in more delicate tones; yet wines that don’t lack in depth and richness of flavor.

Terroir al Limit produces an exemplary range of wines – both white and red - from various plots in Priorat and neighbouring Monstant. This is an estate that does not stand still and quality seems to remain on an ascendant. The top cuvees show the two faces of the traditional Priorat grape varieties. We currently focus on top cuvee Les Manyes, along with single vineyards Les Tosses and L’Arbosar, and the white ‘Pedra de Guix’.

The wine

Arbossar is made from up to 90+ year old Carignan vines growing in the north-facing 1.6-hectare L’Arbossar vineyard, at 400 meters altitude. Grapes are fermented whole bunch and the wine is then left to age for 12-16 months in cement tanks to preserve purity and terroir expression. Arbossar has layers of ripe and succulent blue and red fruits, with a generous yet chiseled texture and herbaceous finish. Only around 4,000 bottles are produced of each vintage.   

We choose our wines based on a range of criteria (see how we choose our wines) of which critic scores is just one. Rather than simply highlight the best score to promote a wine, our average critic score is calculated from the scores provided by several respected wine critics, who we follow for specific regions. They do not represent all critic scores and, wherever possible, we try and give more weight to more recent reviews. Where appropriate we consider market-based scores like Global Wine Score or Wine Searcher Average scores.

As a rule, we look to offer wines that achieve a 92/100 average critic score or better and frankly a lot of very good wines simply don’t make the cut. As a high-end provider we want to reflect that positioning in the quality of wines we offer. Such wines are only a tiny fraction of those generally on offer in the market. We believe that an average score is a more conservative and representative approach, but it is still subjective and only offered as a guide to our customers, who will (and should) do their own research. We will add individual critic scores to our website in the future.