2024 La Baixada
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Labeled as a Vinya Classificada for the first time this vintage, the full-bodied 2024 La Baixada is from a specific clone of Garnacha and 100% varietal. Palacios started bottling it separately after many years and makes only in the neighborhood of 2,100 bottles, employing 40% to 50% whole-cluster fermentation. There’s a huge depth and breadth to the wine, which can best be described as transcendent in blood orange, iron, and sanguine earthiness. The sublime red fruit is juicy, pure, and focused, with an undeniable slatey minerality adding to the complexity and allure. Outstanding. One of the founding fathers of modern-day Priorat, Palacios focuses on vineyards and ancient methods to make what he describes as sensorial to emotional wines.
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Luis Gutiérrez, Wine Advocate
Virginie Boone, jebdunnuck.com
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The foudre sample of the 2024 La Baixada I tasted was pure Garnacha from 26-year-old vines fermented with indigenous yeasts and 48 days of maceration in oak vats. It has 14.4% alcohol, a pH of 3.55 and 4.94 grams of acidity. This 2024 feels a little wilder. It is slightly cloudy and has a vibrant nose that initially reminded me of a Trousseau from Jura, with notes of watermelon, hibiscus and rose hip. We tasted another sample drawn from the top of the vat, and it had a similar character. The wine finished malolactic recently and was transferred to the foudre, and the change in pressure made it to be a bit blurry. Apparently, this wine was the sensation of all the 2024s tastings, but Álvaro was a bit disturbed when we tasted it because of how it showed, but I loved it; the palate is superb. We'll see next year... They expect to fill around 3,800 bottles in 2026.