2022 L'Ermita, Alvaro Palacios old vines wild-fermented and matured in fine

wild-fermented and matured in fine French oak

tapering into an extraordinarily long

mussels in garlic sauce

Notes of dark berries

still aromatic

2022 L'Ermita, Alvaro Palacios old vines wild-fermented and matured in fineSlate Crown This is one of Spains great red wines: rare, profound and almost impossibly refined for Priorat. Wild raspberry, red cherry and pomegranate lead the nose, followed by violet, orange peel, lavender, white pepper, tobacco, wild herbs and crushed slate. It has the intensity of old vine Garnacha from llicorella soils, but the impression is not heavy or forced; it is lifted, aromatic and beautifully controlled. On the palate, it is silky,