To any who know Dominik Huber’s ground-breaking Priorat wines, Terroir al Límit’s move into Montsant was always going to result in something outstanding and radical. For the last year Huber has been warning us to expect something even more special from the 2019 vintage—the year Huber and Tatjana Peceric felt they had their Montsant terroirs by the scruff of the neck. The ‘spine of Figuera’ is 100% Garnacha from three old, high-altitude plots planted in the village of La Figuera—near the old slate-mining villages of El Lloar and El Molar. La Figuera is technically in the comarca (or county) of Priorat, although wines made from La Figuera’s Garnacha grapes fall under the DO Montsant, not the DOQ Priorat. Go figuera. On the slopes of the Montsant mountain range, these vineyards are amongst the highest in the region, sitting at 700-800 metres, and the soils are red clay-limestone with layers of gypsum.
If you’re new to the story, the genesis of Terroir Sense Fronteres began in 2015 when Huber finally managed to purchase his iconic primus inter pares Garnacha vineyard, Les Manyes (the source of one of Spain’s most remarkable red wines). As part of this purchase Huber was also able to acquire an adjacent four-hectare parcel of Garnacha vines lying just across the Priorat border, in DO Montsant. The vineyard is called Els Montalts. While the terroir here is almost identical to Les Manyes, Montsant is obviously another DO, and so a new project was born.
