2001 Alvaro Palacios Priorat Finca Dofí

Community Tasting Notes (44) Avg Score: 92.4 points

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  2/21/2024 - F1NUT Likes this wine: 96 Points

  Brief note from blind tasting. Enormously dark wine with a very very slight influence of boot polish amongst glorious fruit bouquet. Big dark fruited palate with significant tannin, better to breath longer than we had. Similar structure to a couple of cabernets we had but slightly different flavour profile. Not particularly sweet but rather huge and structured. Impressive. Great length from the weight, tannins, acid so a great food wine.

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  6/28/2022 - Eric wrote:

  Smoky tobacco and raisin on the nose, hint of dried sage, moving to a surprisingly fresh palate with blackberry and hints of cranberry, featuring absolutely lovely acidity. This is still surprisingly grippy and very fresh. I was worried it would be over the hill, but it is advancing glacially. There is nothing particularly secondary or complex that has rewarded 20+ years in the cellar, but I do recall this was quite a bit more rambunctious in its youth.

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  12/11/2021 - R Z wrote: flawed

  Regrettably, this bottle, stored in temperature controlled storage with an impeccable cork, lacked any discernable fruit, elegance, nose, body or finish, and consisted of a dark amalgam of tannins and silt. Decanted for two and a half hours before serving with dinner, and continued to sample for another two hours, with no improvement.

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  8/8/2021 - FEDEVIDAL Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Se decantó durante más de tres horas. Produce mucho poso
  El color es picota muy oscuro prácticamente carece de borde atejado.
  Tras la decantación es intenso y variable. En primer lugar se detectan muchos balsámicos, como menta, hierbabuena y otras hierbas aromáticas seguidamente aparecen notas lácteas, como de café con leche y al final se impone la minerialdad siempre presente en estos vinos, acompañado de notas timidas de fruta de fruta.
  La boca es fuerte, recia y profunda, muy consistente, con táninos fuertes y muy presentes, pero nada agresivos. La sensación dominante es sin duda la mineral, la típica “licorella” de la zona, acompañada de lejos con notas frutales. Final muy largo.
  Parece mentira que al cabo de 20 años este vino se encuentre en tan buena forma aunque no parece susceptible de ir a más

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  12/25/2020 - Neurowine1 wrote:

  Had high hopes of course but ultimately this was just OK. Cork macerated and had to be pushed in. Wine filtered into duck decanter. Inky purple. Muted nose. Classic big priorat profile, extracted and clumsy. Overall monolithic and would not have stood out against similar wives. Definitely still holding well for close to 20y. For the price (close to $100 I think) I would say meh.

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