Álvaro Palacios Les Terrasses 2022
HK$ 467.31
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
I tasted this still-unbottled regional red in January 2024. The 2022 Les Terrasses Velles Vinyes has grapes from 53 vineyards in seven villages, and in 2022, it was 60% Garnacha, 39% Cariñena and 1% white grapes, higher in Cariñena than in recent years in this extremely warm and dry year. It fermented with indigenous yeasts in oak vats with part of full clusters, had a 41-day maceration and should spend some 12 months in French barriques and larger barrels. It's fully ripe at 14.5% alcohol while keeping a pH of 3.55 and 5.05 grams of acidity (measured in tartaric acid per liter of wine), parameters of very good freshness. This is always a little earthier and with a beautiful touch of rusticity showing the character of Priorat. It's ripe without excess; all the 2022s show surprisingly fresh for such a warm and dry year. They expected to fill 113,000 bottles around March 2024.
Features
Type of wine
Style
Occasions
Winery
Size
Appellation
Alcohol
14.0%
Grapes
Serving
Between 16ºC and 18ºC
Winemaking
Aged for 12 months in used and new French oak barrels.
Description
Les Terrasses is a crianza red wine made from Grenache, Carignan, Syrah and Cabernet Sauvignon by Álvaro Palacios under the D.O.Q. Priorat in Gratallops, Catalonia. Priorat in Gratallops, Catalonia.
It is a wine produced with grapes coming from old vines that are from 62 to 92 years old on average and born in 8 different villages of the Catalan Priorat.
These vineyards were planted on predominantly siliceous slate soils located at an altitude of 300 and 600 metres above sea level and organically farmed, which produces grapes of impressive quality.
Winemaking
The grapes are hand-picked at optimum ripeness. When the bunches arrive at the winery, they are destemmed and gently crushed to start alcoholic fermentation in concrete and wooden vats, with indigenous yeasts and regular de-stemming.
The resulting wine undergoes malolactic fermentation in vats and wooden barrels and is aged for 12 months in new, 2nd and 3rd year French oak barrels.
Taste
Les Terrasses stands out for its high aromatic and gustatory intensity, mineral touches and balsamic notes. It is a fresh, round and pleasant wine, with a very long and fluid passage, which surprises for its right level of acidity and ripe tannins.
A powerful and structured red wine
Les Terrasses is the red wine of the renowned winemaker Álvaro Palacios that is a faithful reflection of the steep slopes of the Priorat and the character of the grapes from the old vineyards from which it is made, as well as having a great capacity for ageing. A magnificent wine!
On a gastronomic level it is perfect for business lunches, dinners with friends and enjoying it with meals such as roasts, stews, grilled meat, Iberian ham and baked veal.
And you, what are you waiting for to try this incomparable red wine? Leave us your comments.
Shipping to Hong Kong
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