Pasanau Priorat Ceps Nous 2022 SO20231114 and hazelnuts

and hazelnuts

a masterpiece of restraint and structure

carried by a fine

and wet clay which transition to flavors of baked red apples

Silvano Follador farms a tiny biodynamic estate in the steep Cartizze heartland of Valdobbiadene and lets the Glera stand naked

Pasanau Priorat Ceps Nous 2022 SO20231114 and hazelnutsPriorat has a reputation for wines you buy now and open when your kids graduate. Ceps Nous is the exception, and it's honest about it the name means "new vines" in Catalan, a reference to the parcels the Pasanau family planted in 2000. The fruit comes from La Morera de Montsant, the highest village in Priorat, where vineyards sit at 2,300 feet against the rock wall of the Serra de Montsant and swing hard between hot days and cold nights. That altitude