Alvaro Palacios Camins del Priorat
$36.00
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Vintage: 2018
Region: Priorat, Spain
Viticulture. Certified organic
Grape varieties: 35% Garnacha, 20% Cariñena, 20% Syrah, 15% Cabernet Sauvignon, 10% Merlot
A full-bodied red sourced from vineyards throughout Priorat, showcasing what the region has to offer. Dense and juicy with crushed berry fruit, licorice, and spice notes. The tannins are soft and supple leading to a velvety finish.
Patronus: James Dean’s red windbreaker
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If anyone embodies the promise and spirit of “The New Spain,” it is Alvaro Palacios. His L’Ermita is widely considered—along with Peter Sisseck’s Dominio de Pingus— to be the most important Spanish wine in a generation.
One of nine children born to the owners of Rioja’s respected Palacios Remondo, Alvaro studied enology in Bordeaux, while working under Jean-Pierre Moueix at Ch. Pétrus. He credits his tenure at Pétrus for much of his winemaking philosophy and for showing him “the importance of great wines.”
Alvaro could have returned to the security of his family’s domaine. Instead, he was drawn to remote and wildly beautiful Priorat, 60 miles from Barcelona, which had been one of Spain’s important pre-phylloxera wine regions. With its unique terroir of steep hills and terraces, Alvaro believed that here he could make a wine that was like a cross between Pétrus and Grange.
He acquired his first vineyard, Finca Dofí, in 1990. Then, in 1993, he located what is now regarded as the crown jewel property in Priorat, a precipitous, northeast-facing Garnacha vineyard on well-drained schist that had been planted between 1900 and 1940. Alvaro named it for a small chapel, or hermitage, that sits atop the hill – L’Ermita.
