Community Tasting Notes 20

• Jzizzle Likes this wine: 90 points

  April 17, 2024 - This is immediately attractive with a lush sense of fruitiness that also has some grit, herb, and intrigue. Fruit mixes dark red, blue, and some mulberry that is up to the edge of what I enjoy yet stays in the happy zone. 90+

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• Paul852 Likes this wine: 89 points

  February 7, 2024 - There seems to be some significant bottle variation here. Unlike my previous note, this bottle is much more in line with previous vintages. Yes there's still that vegetal/garrigue aspect, but in this bottle there's good dark fruit (blueberries, unripe plums) to balance it, and the overall result is well-balanced.
  
  I've adjusted my previous note. On the basis of this bottle this is a repeat buy for me at the ~US$20 I paid.

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• Paul852 wrote: flawed

  January 10, 2024 - EDIT: although I'll leave the note here, after a subsequent bottle I think that this one was flawed/off. See my later TN.
  
  I've enjoyed several earlier vintages of this, but this one seems a bit different. This is all dark fruit, garrigue, herbs, but for me a bit too vegetal overall and lacking in any sweetness from the fruit. No great change on day 2 or day 3.
  
  For me this is less of a crowd-pleaser than earlier vintages - one for people who like their wines dark and vegetal.

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• henryfriendly Likes this wine: 89 points

  December 15, 2023 - Very dark color, tightly wound on opening with a little heat on the nose. Opens up quickly, but 30 minute plus decant recommended now. Rhône-like with garrigues, spice, and dark fruit, but with a pleasant herbaceousness that’s somehow all it’s own. Nothing like the Corullon from the same vintage, which I loved, but nice in its own way.

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• Elycohn Likes this wine: 89 points

  December 2, 2023 - Aint this an unexpected pretty thing. Chewy, dense, purple goop - fudgey with syrah like outlines -mencia bones - mix of reds and whites making up remaining 8%. Lavender, pepper, tar, and blackberry. Slurp.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2020
• Type Red
• Producer Descendientes de José Palacios
• Varietal Mencía
• Designation Pétalos
• Vineyard n/a
• Country Spain
• Region Castilla y León
• SubRegion n/a
• Appellation Bierzo
• UPC Codes 6430559741590, 8436559741590

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• In Cellars 369 (53%)
• Consumed 327 (47%)

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