Iberica Bruno Prats

Iberica Bruno Prats

While managing Saint-Estèphe’s famed Château Cos d’Estournel, winemaker Bruno Prats couldn’t help thinking of the grapes he fell in love with decades earlier. Notably, the gnarled, old-vine Monastrell of southern Spain. So in 2009, about a decade after he departed his family château in the Médoc, Prats headed south to Alicante. Here he and his partner Stephane Point now craft deep and brooding Bandol-like wines under the name Iberica Bruno Prats - an incredible value that fuses expert Bordeaux winemaking with the rugged, coastal terroir of southern Spain, from very old vineyards, different plots ranging from 35 to 70 years of age located between 500 and 700 meters above sea level with very low yields.