Meritxell Palleja 'Vi de Paratge Torrent' Priorat 2018
Meritxell Palleja Torrent is made from Garnacha (Carinena) and is full of ripe fruit and balanced oak flavours of spice and dried herbs. It is a powerful and soft wine with amazing structure and a basket full of fruit flavours from ripe red berry through to darker damson and blackcurrant.
Having spent 15 years working under the renowned Alvaro Palacios, Meritxell Palleja decided to go her own way and put all her efforts into her own small project which she had been working on for several years and had called Nita, named after her grandmother’s house. Nita was a wine which Meritxell had first made in 2004 from small parcels of grapes which she had bought from family and friends. The project grew over the years by acquiring vineyards with her partner and brother and in 2015 they finally built their own winery in Gratallops.