Description

Il est bien rare de trouver des monocépages de Petit Verdot. Le plus exotique des cépages bordelais est généralement utilisé en faibles proportions pour apporter de la vigueur à certains assemblages, mais Abadía Retuerta a profité de son excellente adaptation au terroir du domaine pour créer un vin rouge unique et singulier. Élégant, fin et séduisant, ce millésime 2014 au grand potentiel de garde se révèle être le meilleur de l'histoire du domaine – un petit détail qui n'échappera pas aux plus avisés d'entre vous.

Fiche technique

Le domaine
Type de vin
Red
Millésime
2014
Alcool
14.0% vol.
Cépage
100% Petit verdot
Origine
IGP Castilla y León

L'avis des experts

The Wine Advocate:

There was no 2013 produced, as the grape didn't achieve enough ripeness in that cool year, so I jumped to the 2014 Petit Verdot, the most expensive wine here, possibly given its scarcity. It's sourced from a single plot at 790 meters altitude with clay and lime soils that yielded 3,700 kilos of grapes per hectare and were picked on October 6th. It fermented for 12 days with indigenous yeasts, followed by malolactic in barrel, where the wine also matured for 18 months. It's dark, concentrated, powerful and exuberant, despite the short maceration time, because the grape does not need more. It's not a grape to produce varietal wines every year, and in 2014 they had their longest growing cycle ever. The palate is full-bodied, with fine-grained, abundant tannins, chewy and powerful, a wine for a winter stew on a cold day in front of the fire. It should be a long-lived red, with all the components to develop more nuances in the bottle. This could very well be the best Petit Verdot ever produced at the property. 3,100 bottles were filled in May 2016.