{"product_id":"2024-alvaro-palacios-finca-dofi-750ml-copy","title":"2024 Alvaro Palacios Finca Dofi Mag (1500ml)","description":"\u003cp\u003eÁlvaro Palacios is a revolutionary figure in Spanish winemaking, credited with practically single-handedly transforming the rugged hills of Priorat into a world-class wine region. The 2024 Finca Dofí vintage is exceptionally highly regarded, with critics hailing it as a complete, deeply elegant, and refined success.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis Finca Dofí was one of the original single-vineyard wines (originally named Clos Dofí) that helped put the Priorat DOCa on the international fine wine map in the 1990s. Sourced from a roughly 10-to-12.5-hectare estate in Gratallops, the vines grow in steep terraces on dramatic llicorella (crumbling slate) soils. It is 100% Garnacha (Grenache) for 2024. The vines are all estate and farmed organically and in bio-conversion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAccording to Luis Gutierrez of the Wine Advocate, \"It's a more vinous vintage with more extract and weight, and the wines are for the long haul, with the contained energy and harmony of the great vintages. Álvaro likes 2024 very much. It's a year he defined as aromas and acidity from the cooler nights. He compared it to 2019, a powerful and rich vintage, though 2024 is more vinous but has freshness and charm.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A pure Garnacha, the barrel sample of 2024 Finca Dofi shows profound earthiness, with complementary undertones of graphite, gravel, and pencil lead. Expansive on the palate, it widens on the midpalate to a point of roundedness and full-bodied weight, never losing a sense of the profound. But what you’ll remember most is that it tastes of spring, bursting in orange blossom, almond, tangerine, and beeswax. Flavors of blood orange make it all the more memorable and fresh, full of tension and yet velvety, too. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful.\u0026lt;!--more--\u0026gt;One of the founding fathers of modern-day Priorat, Palacios focuses on vineyards and ancient methods to make what he describes as sensorial to emotional wines.\" 97-98 - Virginie Boone, jebdunnuck.com (11\/2025)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The single-vineyard 2024 Finca Dofí was produced exclusively with Garnacha, with native fermentation and 36 days of maceration. It matured in oval foudres and large barrels for 13 months. The wine comes in at 14.3% alcohol, a pH of 3.53 and 4.92 grams of acidity. It started quite closed and shy, more than the others, and opened up slowly. It follows the path of elegance and refinement from the last few years, with a nose of violet pastille, a meaty twist and is faintly smoky in the Rhône style, with weight, volume, great balance and finesse. It was a very complete year with very fine-grained tannins. Dofí has been on a roll for a number of years, and 2024 is no different. 20,100 bottles produced. It was bottled in April 2026. Drink Date: 2027 - 2040.\" 96+ - Luis Gutiérrez, Wine Advocate (05\/2026)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Wine Club","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50911242551554,"sku":null,"price":250.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/1419\/7817\/files\/SPL130_1-scaled.jpg?v=1793303869","url":"https:\/\/thewineclub.com\/products\/2024-alvaro-palacios-finca-dofi-750ml-copy","provider":"The Wine Club","version":"1.0","type":"link"}