Alvaro Palacios Camins del Priorat
Non-Varietal Red Blend from Priorat
| Description: | Wine maker notes Alvaro had never wanted to be known solely for expe nsive "trophy" wines, and with Camins, he found the opportunity to create something special. Drawing on his wealth of vineyard sources, Alvaro is aiming to produce a wine that is affordably priced, but which also stays true to his vision of Priorat-powerful but elegant, approachable but restrained. The wine is a blend of Garnacha, Carinyena (Carignan), Cabernet and Syrah. Producer If anyone embodies the promise and spirit of "The New Spain," it is Alvaro Palacios. His L'Ermita is widely considered-along with Peter Sisseck's Dominio de Pingus- to be the most important Spanish wine in a generation. 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. Petrus. He credits his tenure at Petrus 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. Instead, he was drawn to remote and wildly beautiful 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 was like a cross between Petrus and Grange. He acquired his first vineyard, Finca Dofi, in 1990. Then, in 1993, he located what is now regarded as the crown jewel property in Priorat, a precipitous, northeast-facing Garnacha vineyard on well-drained schist that had been planted between 1900 and 1940. Alvaro named it for a small chapel, or hermitage, that sits atop the hill - L'Ermita. |
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| Price: | $ 17.99 |
| Price in original currency: | None |
Previously available from Jersey Fine Wines - New Providence
| Address: |
1260 Springfield Ave #14-#17 New Providence, NJ 07974 United States |
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| Telephone (regular): | 908-473-9100 |
First added to 1000 Corks on December 23, 2017.
This product was inactivated May 1, 2018.
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