Les Terrasses 2010

SWIC score: 89 (JMG)

Tasting notes: Violets, tea plant, volume, round, warm.

Available:

QC (SAQ 10931562 - $ 30.50)

MB (LM 977843 - $ 41.72)

ON (VINTAGES 977843 - $ 39.00) online purchase

BC (BCLS 786103 - $ 46.99) vintage 2009

Winery: Álvaro Palacios

Region: D.O.Q. Priorat (Catalunya)

Varieties: 45% Samsó, 40% Garnacha, 10% Cabernet Sauvignon, 5% Syrah

Ageing: 12 months in French oak barrels

Alcohol level: 14.5% alc./vol.

Álvaro Palacios is a name you should know when talking about D.O.Q. Priorat. He founded his winery in the town of Gratallops in 1989 and critically contributed to the raising of the region’s wines prestige during the last two decades with its iconic L’Ermita. Les Terrasses is the second wine he signs in Priorat. It is more affordable and shows quite well what you find in a Priorat wine. Les Terrasses is a red blend mainly made of Samsó (Cariñena) and Garnacha grapes, from very old vineyards (60 to 90 years old) grown on slate slopes located almost everywhere in the Priorat region. This wine will show its best face from 2015 onwards.

Vintage tasted: 2010 (December 2012)