Descendientes Jose Palacios, Las Lamas Vintage:2020 plum and sandalwood

plum and sandalwood

with a sense of buoyant vitality

An appealingly fresh nose speaks of a panoply of red berry and earth scents where the latter is picked up by the succulent

A nearly confectionary manifestation of cherry and almond paste informs the nose and plush palate of Soter’s “regular” 2009 Pinot Noir Mineral Springs Ranch

freshly baked bread

Descendientes Jose Palacios, Las Lamas Vintage:2020 plum and sandalwoodI love the bottled 2022 Las Lamas, from the 1. 6 hectares of vines in seven plots that are all together since they bought the last plot in 2017. Las Lamas behaves better in dry conditions, as it has more clay in the slate soils and retains water better. It was produced with 92% Menca and up to 8% of white grapes, and the wine shows perfumed, elegant and balanced. It fermented in oak vats with indigenous yeasts and 49 days of maceration and matured in