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Priorat Amerum priorati Ardiles 2007

Priorat Amerum priorati Ardiles 2007 ****(*)

A wine seller recommended this to me based on my tastes. I have no priors w ith Priorat, so I didnt bite until it was on sale at 13.5E per bottle if yo u buy 6. I didnt want 6, so I was allowed to buy one for 16E. Normal price

25E.

I had it today with a spanish recipe for duck breast with red hot pepper an d peach sauce, on oven roast potato "boats".

Pulled the cork. Smelled it. hmm, reminds me of super-tuscany chocolaty dar k fruits Promising. Had a taste. Hmm, dark fruits, oak, that spanish flavo ur like some riojas that makes you wonder if it is corked. It was kinda hot . A bit disappointed. Into the decanter for an hour, while cooking.

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Had a taste of the argentina chardonnay Trivento Reserva (***) I was going to use for the sauce that I got on sale for 5.5E. Still nice, elderberry f lowers, crisp, good white for a white wine. Better than the 40E german ries lings and 20E sauv. blancs I had at a recent tasting and the burgundy I had at the last one.

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I and my 1.10 y old daughter started to get hungry (my italian wife was att ending evening danish lessons so we had to wait with dinner) so we found a serano ham and manchego cheese in the fridge. We gorges and I tasted the wi ne from the decanter. omfg. That undefinable dark sirupy woody liquid, turn ed into ambrosia. dark fruits, sandy tannins, chocolate, earth, cedar, remi nds me of Ripa Del More (35E supertuscan in Italy from last summer).

My wife came home and I had her try it, she was skeptical. too strong. then I gave her some serano ham. and she sipped again. her eyes opened wide. yu mmy! Agrees on the comparison with the ripa del more.

thumbs up! I have to check out more Priorat.

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Michael Nielsen
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Michael Nielsen wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@googlegroups.com:

A Spanish recipe for duck breast? Let me tell you that duck breast is not very common in Spain. More like France.

In an unoaked style, I like Les Cousins L'Inconscient a lot. Very good Priorat, still fresh.

In the more traditional fashion, the wines from Alvaro Palacios are the benchmark for Priorat, and are good at all the price points, from Les Terrases to Camins del Priorat or even the most expensive Finca Dofi or L'Ermita.

I have to try a bottle of Les Terrases sooner than later.

s. btw, the brits have an old saying about wine: buy on apples, sell on cheese. And it is for a reason: They do not eat ham that often.

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santiago

lol. well, the 1/32th part spanish in me liked it anyway :P

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Unoaked wine? ppff. ;p

I thought Palacios was Rioja? Then I might have had priorat before. La Montesa. No, the site says its rioja.

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Michael Nielsen

What surprise me the most is that this is grenache. Its far from the licorice-y thinbodied stuff from france. seems the 2-3% cabernet really shines through.

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Michael Nielsen

Michael Nielsen wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@googlegroups.com:

A beautiful woman needs no make up.

Bodegas Palacios Remondo belong to the father of Alvaro Palacios, Rafa Palacios and grandfather or Ricardo "Tit?n" Palacios.

Alvaro left the winery in Rioja, and established himself in Priorat, where he was one of the pioneers of the resurrection of the area in the early

90s.

Rafa Palacios also left (later) to pursue his own project in Valdorras (As Sortes, Louro, Bolo, O Soro).

Tit?n left to Bierzo where they make P?talos, Corull?n and several single vineyards.

All same family, all great wines.

Around 2008-2009, Alvaro returned to Rioja and is now in charge of the winery too.

BTW, La Montesa is a huge vineyard in Rioja Baja, planted mostly to Grenache although it is blended for the La Montesa vineyard. Not so for Propiedad (100% Grenache).

La Rioja Baja is a different area in soil, climate and grapes to Rioja Alta (Tempranillo, Atlantic, less sandy).

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santiago

Nicely put! I agree, also. :)

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Emery Davis

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