DJP Petalos Mencia 2018
Bierzo is in the far North-West of Castile – old soils, very dry, and planted to Mencia … hardly a household name in great grape varieties.
Named after Alvaro Palacios' father, Jose Palacios Remondo, this is a very exciting project, producing wines of vivid fruit and wild herb, fragrant, intense-but-delicate. Cornas-like wild Syrah characters meld with perfumed, slippery-tannined juicy Burgundian aspects.
Alvaro and his nephew, Ricardo Perez, have renovated amazing steep-sloped, very high altitude old vineyards into biodynamic masterpieces. Dry-grown, tilled by horse … they really are awesome sites.
$54.99 each
$50.59 in any six
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Enjoy now or 2 to 3 years.
Nose:
Petalos leads with lashings of complex florals field herb dried sage red lavender violet pepper tree and rose.
Palate:
Theres fresh clay dirt and lissom red plum and sour cherry fruits earthy and bright. It sums Mencia and Bierzo perfectly. The palate has nicely moderated fruit plushness in a choc blackberry register. Petalos is soft open round pretty and fresh with nice slick but earthy tannins and smoky minerals.
Varietal Composition:
Menica
