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2022 Finca Dofí, Álvaro Palacios, Priorat, Spain

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Medium Bodied
  • Grenache
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Product: 20228004934
2022 Finca Dofí, Álvaro Palacios, Priorat, Spain

Description

Finca Dofí is a single vineyard wine made from a plot stretching 16 hectares across two village areas: La Baixada and Coll de Falset. The 2022 exudes soft, red and blue berry aromas on the nose. It is rounded and juicy with a lovely, pure character and stony minerality. 

This is not as rich an expression of Dofí as in some years, but instead, it has a superb, moreish, crunchy cranberry lick to the bright, cleansing, stone-pure finish. This is deliciously fine and a real triumph of this vintage. 

Drink 2023 - 2036

Catriona Felstead MW, Senior Buyer, Berry Bros. & Rudd (March 2023)

A blend of 88% Garnacha, 9% Cariñena, 2% Picapoll and the balance made up of Garnacha Blanca and Macabeo, the 2022 Finca Dofi exudes freshness, with raspberry compote, black cherries and blueberries combining on the palate while violets and smoke leap out the glass. Notes of white pepper, cinnamon and sage add spice and a herbal touch, while a deeply mineral core means you can practically taste the slate it was grown on. The fruit is wrapped up in the most powdery tannins which seem to expand on your palate, culminate and then dissipate on an endless finish. Alvaro has crafted a very pretty and deeply powerful wine; fresh, floral and graceful, best enjoyed with some Presa Iberico.

Drink 2025 - 2035

Alex Weller, Account Manager, Berry Bros. & Rudd

Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2022
Maturity Not ready
Grape List Grenache
Body Medium Bodied
Producer Alvaro Palacios

About this wine

Grenache/Garnacha

Grenache (Noir) is widely grown and comes in a variety of styles. Believed to originate in Spain, it was, in the late 20th century, the most widely planted black grape variety in the world. Today it hovers around seventh in the pecking order. It tends to produce very fruity, rich wines that can range quite widely in their level of tannin. In many regions – most famously the Southern Rhône, where it complements Syrah and Mourvèdre, among other grapes – it adds backbone and colour to blends, but some of the most notable Châteauneuf du Pape producers (such as Château Rayas) make 100 percent Grenache wines. The grape is a component in many wines of the Languedoc (where you’ll also find its lighter-coloured forms, Grenache Gris and Blanc) and is responsible for much southern French rosé – taking the lead in most Provence styles. Found all over Spain as Garnacha Tinta (spelt Garnaxa in Catalonia), the grape variety is increasingly detailed on wine labels there. Along with Tempranillo, it forms the majority of the blend for Rioja’s reds and has been adopted widely in Navarra, where it produces lighter styles of red and rosado (rosé). It can also be found operating under a pseudonym, Cannonau, in Sardinia.
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Álvaro Palacios

Álvaro Palacios, whose family owns the prestigious Rioja Bodega, Palacios Remondo, spent two years at Château Pétrus before setting up on his own in Priorat in 1989. From the outset, he set out to produce world-class wines using fruit from extremely low-yielding old vines and applying ultra-modern winemaking techniques.
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