Alvaro Palacios, Baixada Vintage:2020 This is starting to lose

This is starting to lose its freshness so that there is some slightly sugary fruit and a little astringency but it is (just) hanging on in there

wild cherry

Montrachet typically fleshes out substantially with bottle age and this should do that as well but it’s not clear that there is necessarily better potential here compared to either the Criots or the Bâtard

elegance and a real sense of energy

(from Chapelle proper)

Alvaro Palacios, Baixada Vintage:2020 This is starting to loseThe vineyard that produces the grape for the 2022 La Baixada is classified in the Vinya Classificada category of the Priorat appellation. It's 1. 3 hectares in the village of Gratallops, mostly Garnacha with 2% Cariena on a steep slope. Like the rest of the range, it fermented with some full clusters and indigenous yeasts in oak vats and had 30 days of maceration. It completed 13 months in oval oak foudres and was in concrete waiting to be bottled