Community Tasting Note
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Greg_O Likes this wine: 91 points
November 25, 2012 - Expressive perfumed nose with exotic florals and spices. Black cherries, spices, minerality and floral notes racing along a backbone of rich tannins and high acidity. Full of character and flavour but still light on its feet. Not a wine for everyone but what wine with this much character is? Another way to describe this wine could be as having the structure of a northern Italian with the profile of a n rhone. I have been following this wine for 6 vintages now and this is the most complete and impressive showing on release yet. Richer and fuller than early vintages but more lively and restrained than the 09 which came off as overworked and flat. I can’t speak to typicity as I am still trying to figure out what typical mencia is exactly…but that’s part of the fun. Petalos is never boring and this vintage it’s showing real potential right out of the gate.
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