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| PÉTALOS 2020 DO Bierzo |
| Vintage Assessments Tasting Note |
Producer |
DESCENDIENTES DE J. PALACIOS |
| Deep intense purple colour. Lovely, gently cedary, vanilla stick nose with intense, complex, ripe, plum-black-cherry notes. Dry, medium-full bodied, well structured, harmonious, very slightly spicy, very bright, rich, intense, plum-crancherry flavours with a tangy, harmonious, solid, cedary finish. This 2020 is the best tasted to date and has 14% alcohol and under 3 g/L residual sugar with lot number L20201 on the back label. |
CSPC |
446484 |
| Type |
Red Table Wine |
| Agent |
Woo Win |
| Country |
Spain |
| Region |
 |
| Rating |
***(92 points)
Sold, Ripe, Well Structured |
| LCBO Text |
Status |
Recommended by Vintage Assessments!
A Best Buy |
| TASTING NOTE: The regional red 2020 Pétalos comes from 90 hectares of vineyards, mainly from Corullón and Villafranca del Bierzo and the districts of Viariz, Hornija, Valtuille de Abajo and Otero. It mixes expositions, altitudes and soils and wants to paint a picture of Bierzo in the warm 2020 vintage. They reckon it's 92% Mencía with 5% other red grapes (Alicante Bouschet, Gran Negro, Pan y Carne and Negreda) and 3% whites (Valenciana, Jerez and Godello) with an average yield of 26 hectoliters per hectare. The grapes were picked from August 28th to September 24th and fermented partly destemmed in stainless steel and oak vats with indigenous yeasts for 43 days with a slow malolactic fermentation that lasted two months. The wine matured in barrel for around eight months (malolactic was fast, and the wines were put in barrel early) and was bottled unclarified, unfiltered and non-stabilized with cold. It has good ripeness with 14% alcohol (their upper limit) and moderate acidity at 4.6 grams (of tartaric acid). It's a little more fruit-driven, a vintage of sun, jovial and juicy, approachable and round with very fine, slightly powdery tannins. The fruit is darker than in the 2019. This is still young, and, as it happens with even the most approachable wines from the region, it should be even better in a couple of years. I tasted it again in mid-December, and the wine is showing better and better; time in bottle has done it some good, and the wine has settled and is getting more balanced. I don't feel the sun now; it's harmonious and more serious, juicy and tasty. A little better than anticipated. It was bottled in May 2021. Drink date: 2022-2027. Score - 93+ (Luis Gutiérrez, robertparker.com, June 30, 2022) |
Price |
$ 28.95 |
| Bottle Size |
750 mL |
| Tasting Date |
vintages release - October 21, 2023 |
| Cases bought |
504 (12 bottles per case) |
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Score:
- Not Presented * Below Average
*+ OK
** Good
**+ Excellent
*** Outstanding
***+ Exceptional
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