1998 | Alvaro Palacios | L’Ermita Velles Vinyes

Description

Red Wine: 1998 | Alvaro Palacios | L’Ermita Velles Vinyes

The blockbuster, opaque purple-colored 1998 L’Ermita exhibits a full-bodied personality with copious quantities of sweet oak, a boatload of glycerin, and superb blackberry, cassis, and cherry fruit that explodes on the mid-palate and in the finish.

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Producer: Alvaro Palacios

Vintage: 1998

Size: 750ml

ABV: 14.5%

Varietal: Grenache

Country/Region: Spain, Priorat

The blockbuster, opaque purple-colored 1998 L’Ermita exhibits a full-bodied personality with copious quantities of sweet oak, a boatload of glycerin, and superb blackberry, cassis, and cherry fruit that explodes on the mid-palate and in the finish.

Producer Information

Alvaro Palacios is a Spanish winemaker, famous for its Garnacha-based wines from Priorat. Established in 1990 by Alvaro Palacios himself, the winery has been forefront of Priorat’s rise to fame as one of Spain’s most prestigious wine regions. Palacios grew up in Rioja where his family makes wines under the Palacios Remondo name (see below). After spending time working at Petrus in Pomerol, he bought his own vineyard, Finca Dofi in the then-obscure region of Priorat, where the steep, slate-based hillsides covered in gnarled bushvines had been forgotten about in the second half of the 20th Century. Palacios soon grew his Priorat estate and now owns several vineyards in the area, which make a range of single-vineyard and blended wines. L’Ermita, the most famous of these, was added in 1993. It produces a varietal Garnacha wine of the same name that has become one of Spain’s most collectable wines, often considered in the same league as Dominio de Pingus or Vega Sicilia. Elsewhere in the Priorat portfolio, Garnacha is predominant but is often supplemented by Cariñena, Syrah and Cabernet Sauvignon. The Finca Dofí wine comes from a single vineyard, whereas Gratallops, Les Terrasses and Camins del Priorat are all blended from multiple vineyards within Priorat.