2022 L'Ermita, Alvaro Palacios old vines with citrus and orchard fruit

with citrus and orchard fruit carried by crunchy acidity and a pure

Without a moment’s hesitation

it opens with commanding aromas of liquorice

still aromatic

tapering into an extraordinarily long

2022 L'Ermita, Alvaro Palacios old vines with citrus and orchard fruitSlate 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,