Bodegas Alvaro Palacios

Álvaro acquired his first vineyard, Finca Dofí, in 1990. Then, in 1993, he located what is now regarded as the appellation’s crown jewel property a precipitous, northeast-facing vineyard on well-drained schist that had been planted between 1900 and 1940.

Álvaro named it L’Ermita, for a small chapel, or hermitage, that sits atop the hill.

In 1995, the flow of critical praise for Álvaro’s L’Ermita began, and it hasn’t stopped. Over 30+ years, Álvaro has come to know this land as well as any native.

Where his early wines were certainly influenced by his time in France, every subsequent vintage has been made with the goal of giving voice to this very real, Spanish terroir.