Château Palmer, Alter Ego De Palmer 2022 vs Nuits-Saint-Georges Premier Cru, Les Crots, Edouard Delaunay 2020
Compare current tracked prices, stockists and core specifications. Château Palmer, Alter Ego De Palmer 2022 currently starts £3.30 lower.
| Availability | In stock | In stock |
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| Best current price | £94.00 | £97.30 |
| Current stockists | 1 merchant | 1 merchant |
| Producer | Château Palmer | Edouard Delaunay |
| Style | Red | Red |
| Grape | Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, Petit Verdot | Pinot Noir |
| Size | 750ml | 750ml |
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Château Palmer, Alter Ego De Palmer 2022
Château Palmer, Alter Ego de Palmer 2022 is the respected second wine of the Troisième Cru Classé estate in Margaux, Bordeaux, made from vineyards that sit on the region’s classic gravel-rich soils near the Gironde estuary. Alter Ego was created in 1998 not as a mere “second wine” of lesser material, but as a distinct expression of the estate’s terroir using different vinification choices and blending proportions to yield a wine that is more accessible in youth while still reflecting the quality of the terroir. Vinified and aged with care, it's a wine with generous fruit, supple tannins and aromatic depth. The 2022 vintage in Margaux was marked by a warm, dry growing season with some beneficial mid-summer rains, yielding small, perfectly ripe grapes with concentrated phenolics and strong structure. At Palmer this translated into wines with expressive fruit, refined texture and harmonious balance despite the challenging conditions.
Nuits-Saint-Georges Premier Cru, Les Crots, Edouard Delaunay 2020
"A high and stony slope to the west of the village, with very shallow soils leading straight on to the bedrock. Grapes are organic and aged in 30% new oak. Dark and brooding berry fruits, cacao nibs, dried violets and smoke. Palate is full of stones, salt and freshness – like a plunge in a cold rockpool. Really quite visceral and muscular, with juniper and currants, bounded by sweeter cherry tobacco tannins, this cuvée takes a year or two to show charm and polish but when it blossoms it will be a head-turner I guarantee." Tom Harrow, Head Wine Guru Laurent set about to catapult these wines into the stratosphere and after sweeping up at the IWC 2020 awards for their incredible 2019s, one could argue, they may have reached space itself! They were in fact the biggest winner at the awards, picking up 8 trophies, Red Winemaker of the Year (for the wonderful Christophe Briotet), as well as 15 gold, 30 silver and 7 bronze medals. Every cuvée is treated individually, without a set formula for quantity of new oak, or amount of whole bunches used, which allows each wine to offer a true and deeply satisfying expression of the individual terroirs and vintage. What we have is absolutely everything we love about Burgundy. A real sense of place.
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