Spain: (Mostly) Priorat and Montsant – Mostly 2017s and 2018s

For this report, I tasted a majority of wines from 2017 and 2018 (nearly 80% of the notes included here), two very different, almost opposite vintages....

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Spain: Álvaro Palacios Portfolio – The 2020 and 2021 Vintages

For this report, I tasted the Álvaro Palacios wines from three regions—Bierzo, Priorat and Rioja—including the 2021s from barrel and the bottled 2020s....

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Book Review: “Ethos Priorat,” by Elisabeth Hecker

This book contains over 300 pages of detail and love for Priorat. Hecker spent 10 years in this magnetic Catalonian region, documenting what she saw....

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Spain: Cataluña – The Dry Years

Most of the wines I tasted were from the last three vintages—2021, 2022 and 2023. All three years were dry, following an unusually rainy 2020....

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