Description

Cepas centenarias (« vignes centenaires ») est issu d'un vignoble exposé Sud dont les pieds de vignes dépassent les 100 ans d'âge. Ce vin rouge élégant et mûr, dont le nez complexe déploie de belles notes minérales et des arômes de confiture de cassis, offre des tanins mûrs et se révèle plein et savoureux – qualités qui lui ont valu 96 points Parker. 

Fiche technique

Le domaine
Castro Ventosa
Type de vin
Red
Millésime
2014
Alcool
14.0% vol.
Cépage
97% Mencía y 3% otras.
Origine
Bierzo

L'avis des experts

The Wine Advocate:

Following the subtle, elegant and floral profile of the vintage, the 2014 Valtuille Cepas Centenarias is always sourced from a south-facing vineyard in the Villegas zone of the village of Valtuille de Abajo, where the soils have a sandy texture and provide for fine, elegant wines. They used 100% full clusters for the fermentation in oak vats with indigenous yeasts, and then matured the wine in used 228-liter oak barrels. The oak does not have an aromatic role in any of the reds. This combines the floral with some characteristics, earthy and developing notes of cypress, smoked meat and a Rhôneish twist. It has some earthy tannins too, coupled with moderate alcohol and great freshness. This is one of the first vineyards to be harvested, as it ripens early, and has contained alcohol. This is a very regular wine, vintage after vintage. This has to be the finest vintage for this bottle. 3,500 bottles were filled in November 2016.