Type: Red wine
Winery: Descendientes de J. Palacios
D.O.: Bierzo
Country: Spain
Variety: Mencía
Features
After the empahtic success in Priorat, Álvaro Palacios decided to settle in Bierzo as a great potential area. His way to understand the wine is the selection of minuscule plots of old grapevines on sheer and rocky grounds to make diferent wines depending on features of every vineyard, a similar system to the Burgundian clasification method. It began many years ago since 1999 and his technique in the making has been refined, leaving back the abuse of strong toasted casks to remove the essence of fruit and draw his wines with several fragances. One of them is Petalos, his village's wine, as Burgundians catalogue it.
It is aging for 4 months inside the cask.
Alc./vol.: 14%
Serving temperature: 16-17 ºC
Tasting
View: Violet and dark tonality.
Nose: Fragance has a perfect definition of carnations, violets and rockrose's petals and flower. When it is shaken, it gains in complexity and you can sense graphite, wood and mineral humus.
Mouth: Floral and blueberries with very fresh texture, balsamic and a velvet dress. Tannins hardly are sensed because of a superfluous and nonexistent touch.
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