ALVARO PALACIOS CAMINS DEL PRIORAT 2024 Santenay Sitting at roughly 360 meters

Sitting at roughly 360 meters above sea level — the highest vineyard in the village and cooler than Setzer's other single-vineyard sites — the parcel produces a more tensile

a thread of licorice — then bitter chocolate on the mid-palate and polished tannins carrying through a long finish

accompanied by floral aromas of Sicilian Spanish broom

with the wine aged in large Slavonian oak casks rather than the smaller barriques used for some of the estate's other crus — a choice that preserves more of Sangiovese's native structure

saline mid-palate with long citrus-pith finish

ALVARO PALACIOS CAMINS DEL PRIORAT 2024 Santenay Sitting at roughly 360 metersFor a Priorat red, Camins del Priorat is unusually accessible it blends Garnacha, Samso, Cabernet Sauvignon, Syrah, Merlot, and 6% white grapes from village level llicorella vineyards across the DOQ, a slate and quartz soil that forces deep rooting and concentrates mineral character without the extraction of a top tier Priorat. lvaro Palacios farms organically and biodynamically, and the wide elevation range 100 to 700 meters builds complexity across