Without a moment’s hesitation
Bright straw in the glass
it opens with commanding aromas of liquorice
still aromatic
tapering into an extraordinarily long
2022 L'Ermita, Alvaro Palacios old vines Without a moment’s hesitationSlate 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,