2007 Vendimia, Palacios Remondo

Smart yet contemporary-styled red rioja is still a rarity, so lap up this summer-suitable ripe, sweet, red berry-stashed ’07 and rejoice.
(Jane MacQuitty - The Times - 30-May-2009)

A superb New-Style Rioja made by the magician Alvaro Palacios; with far more Garnacha than one may expect (50/50 Garnacha and Tempranillo) the wine is made by whole-bunch fermentation and is aged only briefly in oak barrels. If he believed in such things, Alvaro would describe it as a 'Joven'; the emphasis is certainly on the exuberant, with soft hedge-row flavours, and gentle spice to the fore.  With Mediterranean charm, and a certain come-hither, forward, approach to life, this is a distinctly superior every-day drinker.
(Simon Field MW, BBR Buyer)