2021 La Montesa Rioja Crianza, Bodegas Palacios Remondo, Rioja, Spain

Garnacha/Tempranillo/Mazuelo. Organically farmed, Certified from 2017.

Previously voted in the top 100 most exciting wines by The Wine Spectator. 

"Álvaro Palacios was super proud of this vintage, and he told me that "many people consider it at the level of a very good Burgundy village at a fraction of the price!" It is indeed a great value, even more so in an exceptional year like 2021. But it was unmistakably Garnacha, with notes of garrigue and aromatic herbs, red cherries and flowers. It fermented with 20% full clusters in stainless steel with indigenous yeasts and matured in barrel for 12 months. It's clean and precise, with a lace texture, very fine tannins, flavors of red berries and herbs and a long, tasty, chalky finish. It has to be one of the finest vintages of Montesa to date. It has 14.3% alcohol.."  Luis Gutierrez, The Wine Advocate.