2020 Álvaro Palacios Alfaro Quiñón de Valmira
The Wine Advocate
RP 99
Reviewed by:Luis Gutiérrez
Release Price:$450
Drink Date:2023 - 2030
The single-vineyard 2020 Quiñón de Valmira was produced with the Garnacha field blend that contains 10% other traditional varieties from the Valmira Vineyard at 616 meters in altitude. It fermented with some full clusters with indigenous yeasts in oak vats and matured in oak foudres and bocoyes for 16 months. It's very spicy, peppery and aromatic, floral, a little à la Vosne-Romanée, with depth and complexity, very chalky, nicely textured, tasty, elegant and long. There is concentration and power, with 13.8% alcohol and a pH of 3.48 and 5.1 grams of acidity (tartaric), yet it's very balanced and elegant too. There are 3,973 bottles, 131 magnums and some large formats. It was bottled in April 2022.
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.
2016 Álvaro Palacios • Finca Dofí
Reviewed by Luis Gutiérrez
Issue Date 27th Apr 2018
Source 236, The Wine Advocate
Rating WA95-97p
Release Price $85
Drink Date 2018 - 2028 ⇒飲み頃に入っています
I also previewed the 2016 Finca Dofí, which has vibrant acidity and more freshness than the 2015. It's a wine that really stands out among the 2016s—explosive and long, with concentration and elegance. This could very well become the finest Dofí to date. They expect to fill some 24,400 bottles.