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Les Aubaguetes 2020

427.80€ (Inc. VAT bot. 75 cl.) / Spain

Álvaro Palacios
Priorat

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Parker Points: 98
Peñin Points: 97

427.80€ (Inc. VAT bot. 75 cl.) / Spain

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

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.

Features

Description

Les Aubaguetes is a blend of Garnacha and Cariñena, plus 2% white grapes (Garnacha blanca and Macabeo).
This wine has been produced by the renowned winemaker Álvaro Palacios at the Bodega Álvaro Palacios winery in the D.O.Q. Priorat in Gratallops, Catalonia. Priorat in Gratallops, Catalonia.
The grapes for this wine come from old vines that are over 110 years old from the estate of the same name in Bellmunt del Priorat.
It is a beautiful plot with predominantly siliceous slate soils, facing north, caressed by the sea breeze, balanced by the freshness coming from the north.

Winemaking

The grapes have been harvested by hand according to the optimum moment of ripeness. When the bunches arrive at the winery, they are completely destemmed and the berries are gently crushed. Alcoholic fermentation is carried out with indigenous yeasts in wooden vats with regular punch-downs.
The resulting wine undergoes spontaneous malolactic fermentation in wooden containers and then ages for 20 months in French oak barrels.

Taste

Les Aubaguetes is a red wine with fruity, floral aromas and a seductive mineral nuance. In the mouth it is velvety with strong tannins, but also soft and refined. It is very long and persistent.

A masterpiece produced in Priorat by Álvaro Palacios.

Les Aubaguetes is a wine that interprets the landscape, culture and tradition of Priorat with real skill. The grapes come from a beautiful vineyard with an average age of more than 100 years that is worked according to the principles of organic farming.
In the gastronomic field it is the ideal accompaniment for meats such as lamb, game such as deer and venison and poultry, among others.
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