2020 Les Aubaguetes, Álvaro Palacios, Priorat, Spain

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Medium Bodied
  • Grenache
Not ready (Drink 2031 - 2061)
Sarah Jane Evans MW
95/100
Luis Gutiérrez
98/100
Product: 20208004963

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2020 Les Aubaguetes, Álvaro Palacios, Priorat, Spain
Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2020
Alcohol % 14.5%
Maturity Not ready (2031 - 2061)
Grape List Grenache
Body Medium Bodied
Producer Alvaro Palacios

Critics reviews

Sarah Jane Evans MW 95/100
From the most continental part of Priorat, in a vineyard that was planted in 1901. This vintage is unusually dark in colour and includes 27% Cariñena and 3% white varieties. Perfumed with baskets of cherries on the nose, then graphite and plenty more in the mouth. The freshness is neatly in balance, with firm, savoury tannins to finish: Alvaro Palacios describes them as 'Herculean'. There’s a persistent drive of redcurrant adding to the intensity. 1,733 bottles produced usually 2,900).

Drink 2024 - 2032.
Sarah Jane Evans MW, Decanter.com (Jul 2021)
Luis Gutiérrez 98/100

The very classical and powerful 2020 Les Aubaguetes was produced with a blend of 70% Garnacha, 27% Cariñena and 3% white grapes that were not used in 2021), and that might be the reason why the pH is a little lower, 3.39. The grapes were picked very early, and the wine fermented with 70% full clusters. The wine is truly superb, with depth and complexity, powerful and ripe without excess 14.5% alcohol) with concentration and elegance. It feels like everything is where it should be, and it's one wine that feels even better than the 2021. 2020 was a year of mildew that decimated the crop, and there are only 1,684 bottles and some larger formats. It was bottled in April 2022.

Drink to 2035
Luis Gutiérrez, Wine Advocate

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