Pétalos 2020
Descripción
Seguramente estamos ante el vino más famoso de Álvaro Palacios, considerado uno de los mejores enólogos de España. Pétalos del Bierzo es un vino jovial y pleno de aromas embriagadores que transmite con claridad todos los matices del Bierzo. Procedente de viñas viejas cultivadas en tierras de pizarra escarpadas y rocosas de las que se extrae lo mejor de la Mencía y el resto de variedades que componen el coupage de este tinto amable, elegido por Robert Parker en 2015 como el vino con mejor relación calidad-precio del mundo.
Ficha técnica
Maridaje
Filete de buey a la parrilla con verduras
La potencia de la carne roja complementa a la perfección con la marcada acidez de este vino.
Cata
Viñedo y elaboración
Opinión de los críticos
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% of 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. They had 1,050 barrels that produced 263,000 bottles and 1,500 magnums. It was bottled in May 2021.
Añadas: 2022 2021 2020 2019
Muy bueno, como siempre
La prueba de que exista snobismo enologica es este ejemplar
Rojo picota. En nariz fruta madura, suave, elegante, mineral, persistente. En boca carnoso, ligero y fresco. Un vino con un final agradable.
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