Mas Doix is a winery in the town of Poboleda in the Priorat region of Spain.

Owners: The Doix family have lived in the region for many generations (Andrew Jefford, March 2018). They and their cousins, the Llagostera family, sold their Priorato grapes to the co-op until 1998. Sandra Doix’s great great-grandfather planted the oldest Carignan (Carinyena) vines in the town of Poboleda’s pre-phylloxera heyday when its population was 2,000, compared to 374 in 2017, (‘High ambition’ by Andrew Jefford, Decanter, March 2018, p.48-57).

Vineyards: In Poboleda, at almost 600 metres (1,968 feet), with breezes from the Siurana river (Andrew Jefford, March 2018). 

Red wines

Priorat DO Tinto, Salanques: The second wine.

Priorat DO Tinto, Mas Doix | 2001 Grenache Noir, Carignan Noir, Merlot. Oak apparent immediately on the nose with wild fruit beneath; too much oak for the fruit for me at this stage, oak starting to make the grape tannins taste a bit dry and stretched in March 2004 at the Outlaws wine tasting, Old Bridge in Huntingdon 7th March 2004.

Priorat DO Tinto, Mas Doix 1902 | From 100% Carignan Noir at almost 600 metres (feet) planted in 1902.

Priorat DO Tinto, Vinyes Velles | Old vines.

Bibliography

Andrew Jefford, High ambition’ Decanter, March 2018, p.48-57. 

Oz Clarke, Oz Clarke Wine A-Z (Pavilion, 2015), p.166.