{"id":8483,"date":"2013-11-17T12:54:14","date_gmt":"2013-11-17T12:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=8483"},"modified":"2013-11-17T12:54:14","modified_gmt":"2013-11-17T12:54:14","slug":"stunning-wines-from-alvaro-palacios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/spain\/stunning-wines-from-alvaro-palacios","title":{"rendered":"Stunning wines from Alvaro Palacios"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/P1010243.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8490\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/P1010243.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/P1010243.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/P1010243-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/P1010243-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/P1010243-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have just written up the remarkable wines of Alvaro Palacios (and other family members):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wineanorak.com\/alvaropalacios.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Alvaro Palacios, Priorat<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wineanorak.com\/spain\/descendientesdejpalacios.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Descendientes de J Palacios, Bierzo<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wineanorak.com\/spain\/palacios_remondo.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Palacios Remondo, Rioja<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The top wines from Priorat and Bierzo are among Spain&#8217;s most expensive. But the good news is that the inexpensive wines from these projects are thrilling, aromatically stunning, and don&#8217;t need to be cellared for decades to show their best. They are truly beautiful wines:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8491\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/palacios_petalos.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/palacios_petalos.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/palacios_petalos-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/palacios_petalos-150x106.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/palacios_petalos-400x284.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Alvaro Palacios Camins del Priorat 2011 Priorat, Spain<br \/>\n<\/b>From young vines. So sweet and pure on the nose with jammy, fresh blackberry and raspberry fruit. The palate is fresh, ripe, open and sweetly fruited with lovely grip. Such a pretty wine. 93\/100<\/p>\n<p><b>Descendientes de J. Palacios P\u00e9talos 2011 Bierzo, Spain<br \/>\n<\/b>98% Mencia, the balance made up of 20 other varieties in the region, a blend of different villages. Fresh, floral black cherry nose is quite beautiful, with a meaty edge. Amazing palate is fresh and vivid, with intense notes of pure black cherries, meat and olives. 94\/100<\/p>\n<p>Find these wines with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wine-searcher.com\/index.lml?referring_site=WAN\" target=\"_blank\">wine-searcher.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have just written up the remarkable wines of Alvaro Palacios (and other family members): Alvaro Palacios, Priorat Descendientes de J Palacios, Bierzo Palacios Remondo, Rioja The top wines from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[42,43,371],"class_list":["post-8483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spain","tag-bierzo","tag-priorat","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8483"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8492,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8483\/revisions\/8492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}