Clos Erasmus 2005

Decanting Time: Decant only for 1 hour. Please note that wines at this age and high quality will tend to have sediments form in the bottle. This is completely normal and a sign of the wine's age and quality. Another way to avoid sediments going in the glass is to rest the bottle vertically for at least 1 hour so that the sediments settle at the bottom and pour gently or pour using a fine strainer. Serve at 16-18°C

Our suggestion for decanting time is based on bottles we tried at Txanton in 2020. We guarantee that Txanton stocks are imported and maintained in proper storage within the correct temperature and humidity suitable for wine.

Good To Know: Clos Erasmus is produced from three vineyard sites originally terraced by the Greeks. Since 2004, the winery has integrated biodynamic principles which has become the core of their highly sought after but extremely limited production (only 2.5 hectares of vines and 3,200 bottles produced annually) wines.

Scored 100 points by world renowned wine critic, Robert Parker, the 2005 Clos Erasmus continues to age with flare and flamboyance. It is opulence and munificence in a simple glass bottle. Rich, dark and intense ruby in color with notes of blueberry, crushed slate, cinnamon, cassis and kirsch on the aroma. The palate is an explosion of brilliant fruit and liquid minerality that needs to be tasted to be believed. Truly, words do not do justice to this wine. A sip of this exuberant elixir proves that a wine of this level easily brings tasters and taste dictionaries to their descriptive limits and into a deprivation of words to explain the magic that is Clos Erasmus. The wine can still age 10 years from now (opened in 2020) and still develop further complexity and smoothen its already extravagant, velvet sheet tannins.

With the advice of world renowned Alvaro Palacios and Rene Barbier, Daphne Glorian acquired the 2.5 hectare plot of Clos Erasmus in 1989. It has since been managed organically from the very beginning and eventually adapted biodynamic practices in 2004. Today, it is one of the most prominent and prestigious wineries in the ever growing and evolving region of Priorat.