Palacios Remondo; red, "Finca Dofi".
Category: Palacios Remondo
"Finca Dofi", Priorat 2019 94 JS; 75 cl.
14 February 2024
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Tasting notes
Black currant, blackberry, dust, leather, cherry, strawberry, raspberry,
licorice and anise vanilla, toast, smoke,
tobacco, dark fruit, red fruit, violet, rose petal, oak and mushroom.
Product Description:
If anyone embodies the promise and spirit of “The New Spain,” it’s Alvaro Palacios.
His L’Ermita is widely considered—along with Peter Sisseck’s Dominio de Pingus —
to be the most important new Spanish wine of the modern era.
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.
But instead, he was drawn to the remote and seductive 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 evoked both Pétrus and Grange.
He acquired his first vineyard, Finca Dofí, in 1990.
Finca Dofí is a blend of Garnacha, Cabernet, and Syrah.
Like L’Ermita, Dofí combines power and richness with great breed and finesse.