Pétalos 2023
Description
Il s'agit de l'un des vins les plus réputés d'Álvaro Palacios, considéré comme l'un des meilleurs œnologues d'Espagne. En collaboration avec son neveu Ricardo Pérez Palacios, il a créé ce vin rouge jovial et plein d'arômes enivrants qui transmet avec clarté toutes les nuances du Bierzo. Il provient de vieilles vignes cultivées sur des terres escarpées et rocheuses d'ardoise, d'où l'on tire le meilleur du Mencía et des autres cépages qui composent le coupage de ce vin rouge agréable. Dans ce millésime 2023, il se montre plus floral, tout en conservant son fruité habituel. Il est extrêmement agréable.
Élu par Robert Parker en 2015 comme le vin offrant le meilleur rapport qualité-prix au monde
Fiche technique
Dégustation
Vignoble et élaboration
L'avis des experts
The 2023 Pétalos has around 20% grapes from Corullón and the rest bought from around 100 families across Bierzo, approximately 91% Mencía, 8% whites and 1% other reds that fermented in open-top oak and stainless steel vats with indigenous yeast. Malolactic fermentation took a couple of months in oak and stainless steel, and the wine matured in barriques and bocoyes for 10 months. It comes in at 13% alcohol with a pH of 3.74. It has a serious nose that combines berry fruit with herbs and a licorice twist, and it is a little tighter and more herbal, denoting more sensation of freshness in the wine even if the year was also warmish. But the peaks of heat did not reach the highs they did in 2022. It makes you think of the Bierzo wines from yesteryear, with the rain during the harvest. It's elegant but there's weight. Despite the price level, this is a wine that aged beautifully in bottle, something you don't expect in an entry-level wine. Final production figures were as expected, 297,867 bottles. The wine was bottled between January and April 2025. This keeps its position as one of the best values in Spain. (Luis Gutiérrez)
This has dark cherries, underbrush, dried flowers and a bright edge on the nose. The palate is medium- to full-bodied with firm, focused tannins. It’s polished and angular, almost skeletal in structure. About 85% mencia with small amounts of other red and white varieties co-planted in the vineyard. Drink or hold. (Jacobo García Andrade)
Millésimes: 2023 2022 2021 2020
Buen vino. Suave y jugoso.
Coupage muy acertado para conseguir un vino muy goloso.
Frutal. Tanino fino, mineral. Un buen vino para salir de Ribera/rioja