Palacios Remondo La Montesa 2017 (750 ml)

Alvaro Palacios makes this wine at his family’s estate in Rioja Oriental—the eastern zone formerly known as Baja. He farms this garnacha at an elevation of 1,800 feet, producing it without additions other than some sulfur (and some egg whites for clarifying the wine). Spend some time with the wine and you may begin to sense its very Spanish soul, something you can feel in the bright red fruit, something you can breathe in the savor of the grape-skin tannins. It’s a light, simple, tangy red that will only improve over the course of four days, recorked, on a cool pantry shelf.