Palacios Remondo, founded in 1947, is the Palacios family’s historic Rioja estate—rooted in a winemaking tradition that stretches back to the late 1800s. In 2000, fourth‑generation winemaker Álvaro Palacios took the helm, lowering yields, returning to traditional farming, and embracing organic viticulture to showcase the character of Rioja Oriental. Alongside Palacios Remondo, Álvaro is also the force behind two of Spain’s most acclaimed wineries: Descendientes de J. Palacios in Bierzo and Álvaro Palacios in Priorat.
The estate's flagship wine, Propiedad, is made from old-vine Garnacha that grows in five unique high-elevation vineyards located on the rocky hillsides of Rioja Oriental. With notes of orange peel, red currants, nectarines and black cherries on the nose and palate, winemaker Alvaro Palacios describes this wine as being fleshy and fluid with a soft aftertaste that invokes a hill covered with chamomile and rosemary flowers as its origin. Containing well-integrated tannins and a long finish.
Blend: 92% Grenache, 8% other spanish varietals
95 James Suckling Vivid, racy fruit, full of strawberries, dark raspberries, pomegranate, mineral and rose hips. Subtle white pepper accent. The succulent medium-bodied palate is framed by bright berry fruit and fresh, chalky tannins. Intense but weightless, with a long, linear finish, full of energy and freshness. Delicious now, but can keep very well, too.
94 Wine Spectator A lovely, silky red, showing pinpoint balance and overall harmony. Offers a generous range of ripe boysenberry, baked cherry, dried lavender and star anise notes, with a light tang of orange peel acidity and supple, fine-grained tannins. Long and graceful on the spiced finish. Drink now through 2034. 3,866 cases made, 500 cases imported. Drink now through 2034.
96 Robert Parer's Wine Advocate The Propiedad bottling is not produced every year, and the 2021 Propiedad, mostly Garnacha (with 10% other grapes) from old organically farmed and head-pruned vines in the parajes of Las Mulgas, Cabecilla de la Ra and Valmira, fermented in oak vats with indigenous yeasts. It has the signature of this cuvée in a cooler year: elegant and fresh but not lacking power or concentration. It has a velvety, precise and seamless palate, with great freshness and balance, red berry and crushed stone flavors and a citrus twist of freshness. There is a lot more depth and complexity compared with the already exceptional La Montesa. It’s fine-boned and elegant, with very fine tannins and a precise and clean finish. It's also powerful and ripe at 14.5% alcohol, keeping a pH of 3.5 and 5.3 grams of acidity. 46,400 bottles produced. It was bottled in March 2023 after it spent 10 months in oak vats and barrels of different sizes.
