Paola Medina Palo Cortado en rama 2002 monforte-dalba auch etwas erdig

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A number of the vineyards are owned by the Sutherland family

This allows for a wine that is both dense but pure and lifted with beguiling aromatics

It's a style that we have always enjoyed making and drinking

in the department of Gironde

Paola Medina Palo Cortado en rama 2002 monforte-dalba auch etwas erdigAs with the other wines, the fruit source is Pagos Aina and Carrascal. This wine is from a fruit selection of extremely fine young material which Paola hoped might develop naturally into Palo Cortado. It was set to age oxidatively from the get go, in topped barrels fortified to 18 degrees. After 17 years' ageing the wine was finally classified Palo Cortado in 2018, and this is the first bottling as such. Extremely fine, and silky wine, elegant and