Le Palais 2020
Description
Issu d'une parcelle unique plantée sur trois niveaux ou terrasses qui lui a donné son nom, El Palacio de Luis Cañas rompt avec la tradition pour mettre l'accent sur la pureté du Terroir. C'est un vin rouge d'une sophistication émouvante, où la puissance de la Rioja Alavesa s'adoucit grâce à une fraîcheur minérale et à une finesse tannique presque bourguignonne. Un délice empreint d'élégance, d'histoire et du profond respect de la famille pour les vignes qui ont vu passer les générations.
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Dégustation
Vignoble et élaboration
L'avis des experts
This is a lot, but everything is in the right place! 75% Tempranillo, 20% Graciano, 5% Viura, fermented together in a French oak vat, with malolactic fermentation in second-use 500L barrrels and 15 months' ageing also in 500L barrels. Intense red berry and blueberry fruit combine with spicy black pepper to create a layered and complex wine. It speaks to the zone; it is a wine very much from Alavesa (Villabuena de Alava, at about 500m) with direct acidity and impressive spice. Tannins are well managed even if quite grippy now but the wine has lots of life ahead. The oak is high quality and, again, quite obvious but provides all the framing that a wine of this substance requires.
A very fresh and firm Rioja whose highlights are freshness and the chalky quality of the tannins. Crushed stones, racy red berries, white pepper and fine spices. Full-bodied but nothing heavy. Rather fine-boned and uptight, with a firm structure and a long, nuanced finish. Nothing redundant here. Drink or hold.
Part of a very special line up of single parcel wines, El Palacio is a comparatively conventional field blend of Tempranillo with Graciano and a little Viura. Spicy, firm and grippy, it's a little more austere than its stablemates, with firmer tannins and a rustic undertone, but the damson and blackberry fruit is very tasty indeed. 2025-35
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