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ALVARO PALACIOS

If anyone embodies the promise and spirit of “The New Spain” it is 38 year old Alvaro Palacios.  His L’Ermita is widely considered to be the most important new Spanish wine in a generation.

Alvaro studied enology in Bordeaux, while working under Jean-Pierre Moueix at Chateau Petrus. He credits his tenure at Petrus for much of his winemaking philosophy and for showing him the “Improtance of Great Wines”

Alvaro was drawn to a remote and wildly beautiful area called Priorato, 60 miles from Barcelona. With its unique terroir of steep hills and terraces Alvaro believed that here he could make great wine.