Palacios Placet '19
Alvaro Palacios – Grandes Vinos Clásicos
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Placet is a wine with character, concentrate and complexity. They achieve this by avoiding excessive wood influence and maturation. The result is this lively, gourmet wine from 100% Viura with low yields per stick. The finish is long.
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- Wine Country
- Spain
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- Grape varieties wine
- Viura
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- Wine-food combination
- Fish rices, Grilled white fish, Baked white fish, Blue fish, White fish in sauce, Aperitif, Boullabaise, Grilled seafood, Smoked dishes, White meat, Pasta with fish sauce, Asian cuisine
About this wine
Description & facts
Bodegas Palacios Remondo is a family owned winery established in 1948 by Jose Palacios Remondo, 5th generation of a family with a long involvement with wines for more than 150 years. This was also the childhood home of Alvaro Palacios, the acclaimed Spanish winemaker, he learnt his craft here and actually, after his father death in 2000, is now officially winemaker too in the family’s home estate in Rioja. The Winery is located within the Oriental Rioja in the municipal district of Alfaro. The Estate owns 100 ha. of vines which are located in a large and steep hill, south-east facing at an altitude of 550 meters above sea level and made up of clay/lime soils with very poor organic matter. The varieties planted are Tempranillo, Garnacha, Mazuelo and Graciano, with just 8 ha. planted with the white grape variety Viura. From the vintage 2017, the wine is organically farmed.
- Producer
- Alvaro Palacios – Grandes Vinos Clásicos
- Country of origin
- Spain
- Wine Region
- Rioja
- Classification
- DOC
- Vintage
- 2019
- Grape varieties wine
- Viura
- % of grape varieties wine
- 100 % Viura
- Tasting note
- Fresh and perfumed nose of white and exotics fruit aromas combined with Mediterranean notes. Round and savory on the palate, white fruit and honeyed citrus notes, splendid integration of oak, fruit and acidity with a long flavourful finish and good minerality
- Wine-food combination
- Fish rices, Grilled white fish, Baked white fish, Blue fish, White fish in sauce, Aperitif, Boullabaise, Grilled seafood, Smoked dishes, White meat, Pasta with fish sauce, Asian cuisine
- Vinification
- Made from 100% Viura, this wine has been aged for 11 months on its lees in 2000-liter oak ovals.
- Location Vineyard
- D.O.C. Rioja
- Soil
- clay/lime
- Closure
- cork
- Serving temperature
- 10º - 12º
- Ageing potential
- To be enjoyed now - 2029
