Palacios Les Aubaguetes '19
Alvaro Palacios – Grandes Vinos Clásicos
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Wild cherries and the wood of a cherry
tree,
massive balsamic complexity, with green fennel, violet, rose hip, orange and cold dark tea, some tobacco freshened by white wine-like acidity. Deep, serene, earthy yet bright, rounded, floral-vegetal-orange-rich. It has well integrated tannins. You can feel the wash of the cool breezes enjoyed by Aubaguetes – it’s extraordinarily lively, perfumed, lifted and glorious.
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- Wine Country
- Spain
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- Grape varieties wine
- Garnacha
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- Wine-food combination
- Braised lamb, grilled red meat and rich cheeses
About this wine
Description & facts
This is a marvellous vineyard in the village of Bellmunt, an old mining town on the
southern border of Priorat. Aubaguetes (meaning, the shady vineyard, thanks to its cool
northern exposure) faces across the Siurana valley to its sister over the way, Finca Dofi in
Gratallops. It’s a 115 year-old patch planted to its own Garnatxa genetics with 20%
Caranyena and some white grapes, all ‘grown
en costers’. It’s a small vineyard of 1.34 hectares, much of which remains unplanted
since Priorat’s abandonment post-Civil War.
Álvaro has long taken fruit from Aubaguetes. Every year his componentry tasting bench
ended up with the same two wines set aside as the most glorious expressions of Priorat:
L’Ermita, and Aubaguetes. Álvaro purchased Aubaguetes (from Salvador Torre, who was
ready to retire at 93) in 2013, and after 2 years of viticultural renovations (raising the
bush vines ‘en parra’, restoring old pruning methods, and re-asserting organic work with
mules), Aubaguetes entered the market as a Vi de Finca wine from 2015.
- Producer
- Alvaro Palacios – Grandes Vinos Clásicos
- Country of origin
- Spain
- Wine Region
- Priorat
- Classification
- DOQ Priorat
- Organic/Biodynamic/Vegan:
- Organic
- Vintage
- 2019
- Grape varieties wine
- Garnacha
- % of grape varieties wine
- 71% Garnacha 28% Cariñena, 1% white grapes
- Tasting note
- Wild cherries and the wood of a cherry tree, massive balsamic complexity, with green fennel, violet, rose hip, orange and cold dark tea, some tobacco freshened by white wine-like acidity. Deep, serene, earthy yet bright, rounded, floral-vegetal-orange-rich. It has well integrated tannins. You can feel the wash of the cool breezes enjoyed by Aubaguetes – it’s extraordinarily lively, perfumed, lifted and glorious.
- Wine-food combination
- Braised lamb, grilled red meat and rich cheeses
- Vinification
- 100% destemmed and soft crushing. Alcoholic fermentation in wooden oak vats with regular cap punshing (pigeage). Only natice yeast. Maceration for 55 days. Malolactic is spontaneous in wooden barrels. Ageing for 14 months in foudres. Unfiltered and no cold stabilization.
- Location Vineyard
- Very steep slopes, north oriented
- Soil
- The vineyard is dominated byblue mineral schist loaded with zinc, aluminium and granite, and contains a streak of ferrous clay too.
- Closure
- Cork
- Bottle size
- 750 ml
- Serving temperature
- 15 C
- Ageing potential
- High ageing potential of 10 years and more
- Awards & ratings
- Parker: 95