2022 L'Ermita, Alvaro Palacios old vines it opens with commanding aromas

it opens with commanding aromas of liquorice

this is Malbec with lift

still aromatic

wild-fermented and matured in fine French oak

There is richness from the very first swirl

2022 L'Ermita, Alvaro Palacios old vines it opens with commanding aromasSlate 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,