El Palacio 2020
Descripción
Procedente de una parcela única plantada en tres niveles o terrazas a la que debe su nombre, El Palacio de Luis Cañas rompe con lo tradicional para centrarse en la pureza del terruño. Es un tinto de una sofisticación conmovedora, donde la potencia de la Rioja Alavesa se domestica con una frescura mineral y una finura tánica casi borgoñona. Una delicia repleta de elegancia, historia y el profundo respeto de la familia por las viñas que han visto pasar generaciones.
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Opinión de los críticos
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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