Rafael Palacios, Sorte O Soro Vintage:2019 dried flowers and cola

dried flowers and cola

The palate is bright and fresh

This is more pliant from bottle than it was from barrel a year ago

This is all about purity of cherry and raspberry fruit

A much cooler though still ripe nose reflects pure

Rafael Palacios, Sorte O Soro Vintage:2019 dried flowers and colaThe single vineyard Sorte O Soro had not been produced since 2016, and the 2019 Sorte O Soro is the next vintage after that. This plot has always shown additional elegance, freshness and salinity since he started vinifying it in 2004, because of the altitude (710 meters above sea level) and the north exposure to the Bibei Valley, where the old clone is planted on fine granite sand and quartz soils. Like As Sortes, this Sorte also fermented and matured