Venus, La Universal Montsant Red

Venus is the yearly result of our search for beauty. An attempt to understand the femininity, the land, through a bottle of wine: Carinyena and Garnatxa. Mystery and seduction, speech and wealth, peace, patience, balance, and passion. A juicy wine, mostly created to be paired with food, especially the Mediterranean traditional cuisine.

Winery: Venus La Universal
Appellation: Montsant
Average age of vines: N/A
Farming Methods: Organic
Maturation: Fermentation starts with wild native yeast. We apply slightly pigeage during fermentation and maceration, that takes around 30 and 40 days in wood tanks. Venus is aged in a 4500l wood vat for 6 months and 12 more months in 2500l foudres.
Soil: N/A
Varietal: Garnatxa and Carinyena o
Vineyard Orientation: N/A
Vineyard Size: N/A

Wine	Scores	Downloads	Reviews
Venus, La Universal Montsant Red 2021	96 Vinous The 2021 Venus La Universal from Montsant is composed of Cariñena and Garnatxa, macerated for nine weeks and aged for 42 months in foudres and concrete. Aromas of fine red fruit—pomegranate, watermelon and cherry—merge with Mediterranean herbs and subtle, well integrated oak. lean, silky and lightly chalky, it carries vital energy across the palate. The cool vintage sharpens its profile, leaving length and a stem note. Intriguing and drinkable in a distinctive regional style. 96 Wine Advocate The red 2021 Venus la Universal has a bright ruby color and a floral, perfumed and elegant nose full of wild herbs. The 60% Cariñena and 40% Garnacha fermented with full clusters with a long maceration, four or five weeks, kept in the fermentation oak vat, with the next harvest moved to another vat and then to concrete, completing some 42 months of élevage. The long élevage seems to have given it great harmony and made it very stable and subtle, the result of a slow cooking, leaving the wine nuanced, complex and terribly elegant. It has a medium-bodied palate, with very fine, chalky tannins and an elegance, inner energy and light like I have not seen before. Very elegant and fine-boned, it has a moderate 12.5% alcohol. It should develop nicely in bottle. It was bottled in February 2024.	Bottle Image Label Image Shelf Talker Tech Sheet