Pétalos 2023
Description
Pétalos compte parmi les cuvées emblématiques d'Álvaro Palacios, considéré comme l'un des plus grands œnologues espagnols. Avec son neveu Ricardo Pérez Palacios, il a conçu ce rouge généreux aux arômes captivants qui exprime magnifiquement toutes les facettes du Bierzo. Issu de vieilles vignes ancrées dans des terrains escarpés d'ardoise, il révèle le meilleur du Mencía et des cépages qui composent son assemblage. Le millésime 2023 accentue les notes florales tout en préservant son fruit caractéristique. Un vin d'un charme irrésistible. Robert Parker l'a sacré en 2015 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
I had Petalos a few years ago, it was excellent. This time I am rather disappointed; some cheaper Bierzo are just as good or even better.
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