The new releases (all 100% Mencia) include the entry-level 2009 Petalos del Bierzo sourced mainly from leased vineyards with vine age ranging from 40-90 years. It was aged for a few weeks in new French barriques followed by 6-10 months in seasoned barrels. It shows lovely density and purity in an up-front style. Dark black cherries, violets, and Asian spices perch on a medium-bodied frame with well integrated oak and an elegant personality. With excellent volume and length, it is a classy introduction to what can be achieved in the DO of Bierzo.
Proensa Guide: 91 points
Peñin Guide: 94 points(01/01/2012)
Cherry red colour, garnet rim. On nose, powerful, ripe fruit, frutal expression, wild herbs, spicy. On palate, tasty, fruity, bitter, mineral.
In 1999 Álvaro Palacios and his nephew Ricardo Perez Palacios discover in Corullón, in the region of el Bierzo, an ideal land for their new project. Nowadays they cultivate 15 hectares of very old vineyard, distributed in approximately sixty plots of very diverse characteristics due to the... complex orography composed of hillsides with marked slopes. The growing is carried out following a biodynamic method, obtaining fresh and brilliant wines with a very marked personality.
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