Cart 1998 Alvaro Palacios L'Ermita Velyes Vinyes Priorat
Average Price: $399.95 
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| Style: | Red Wine |
| Grape Type: | Grenache |
| Region: | Priorat |
About Alvaro Palacios
Alvaro Palacios' huge but creamy and refined L'Ermita, from mostly Garnacha vines, some more than a century old, is one of Spain's true cult wines. His far less expensive Finca Dofí -- from a single-estate vineyard planted to 60% Garnacha, with the remainder Cabernet Sauvignon, Me... more
Expert Reviews
Full deep ruby. Great brooding nose of black and red fruit liqueur, spices and flowers. Like liquid velvet in the mouth, but with bracing acids giving it a three-dimensional texture. A wine of uncanny chewy depth. Firmly structured and youthfully unevolved, but already quite explosive on the back half. Finishes with major dusty-but-ripe tannins and extraordinary persistence. Late hints of cassis and shoe polish. A great vintage for this wine, in need of at least five or six years of additional bottle aging.
