2023 was the third year of drought, and some vines and wines were more affected than others, while 2024 was a good year to make sparkling wine....
Read MoreThe region suffered four years of accumulated drought, with diminishing yields. But rain finally came in November 2024, so things are looking up....
Read MoreMost of the wines I tasted were from the last three vintages—2021, 2022 and 2023. All three years were dry, following an unusually rainy 2020....
Read MoreThis book contains over 300 pages of detail and love for Priorat. Hecker spent 10 years in this magnetic Catalonian region, documenting what she saw....
Read MoreFor this report, I tasted the Álvaro Palacios wines from three regions—Bierzo, Priorat and Rioja—including the 2021s from barrel and the bottled 2020s....
Read MoreFor this report, I tasted a majority of wines from 2017 and 2018 (nearly 80% of the notes included here), two very different, almost opposite vintages....
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