La Vendimia, Palacios Remondo, Rioja, Spain ‘07
Grapes: Tempranillo and Garnacha
Each: £9.00
DOZEN OFFER - £100 (£8.33 each)
The key to this wine, well of course it’s tasting it but, the other key is the person that made it – Alvaro Palacios. Heralded by just about everyone that writes on the subject as the embodiment of the New Spain, Alvaro spent time at Chateau Petrus before cracking his own whip at L’Ermita in Priorat. One of sixty-five children (or there abouts) Alvaro then returned to the family property to do his bit.
The Vendimia is the entry wine from the Palacios Remondo stable, that is it spends but four months in oak before being bottled and is released young to capture its fresh, vibrant, crunchy hints of forest floor? Brilliant balance and great depth in a not so demanding way. Rather like a book you can either skim through whilst concentrating on your tan of spend a degree course on – both with equal satisfaction if not the same pallor.
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