2018 Alvaro Palacios Les Terrasses Velles Vinyes
Reve Date 31st Dec 2020
Source Issue 252 End of December 2020, The Wine Advocate
Rating 94 points
Release Price $42
Drink Date 2020 - 2028 ⇒ 飲み頃に入っています
The 2018 Les Terrasses Velles Vinyes is a blend of 55% Garnacha with 44% Carinena and 1% white grapes. The destemmed and lightly crushed grapes fermented in concrete and oak vats with indigenous yeasts, and the wine matured in barriques for 13 months. It keeps the more rustic side of their wines but with the finesse of 2018. It's a wine marked by a high percentage of Carinena, but it's velvety, fresh and harmonious but with the dustier tannins. This is the British farmer, rustic but elegant with his Land Rover, the Wellington boots, corduroy trousers and a Barbour jacket... but with a Priorat twang. 126,000 bottles produced.