2003 Descendientes de José Palacios Bierzo Corullon Las Lamas

Community Tasting Notes (12) Avg Score: 92.5 points

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  11/17/2023 - maranoli Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Deep garnet, no bricking
  Intense nose of dark fruit, smoke, spice, hints of dried fruit
  Medium acidity
  Tannins have softened completely
  Just gorgeous wine
  
  With Iberico pork chop
  From bottle

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  4/21/2017 - Lype Likes this wine: 92 Points

  A full bodied powerful wine, still youthful, leather, pungent red berries. I am not sure will this develop to show tertiary aromas in the years to come or has the wine reached its peak and does not get any better. The same puzzle as for Priorats.

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  4/21/2017 - forceberry wrote: 96 Points

  14,5% alcohol.
  
  Very concentrated and almost completely opaque dark cherry red color with a little bit of developed maroon hue. Bold, sweet and somewhat youthful nose with intense aromas of ripe plums, some sweet dark fruits, a little bit of blackberry jam, a hint of toasty smoke and a mineral touch of stone dust. The wine is dense, dry and really concentrated - almost chewy - on the palate with pronounced spicy character, intense stony minerality and powerful flavors of sour cherry bitterness, inky character, some exotic and slightly bitter spices, light and somewhat meaty bacon notes, a little bit of ripe blackberry and a touch of fresh dark plums. Overall the wine feels surprisingly youthful, very smooth and quite polished with impressive structure of high acidity and firm, ample and grippy tannins. The finish is tannic and bitter with mouth-drying astringency and long, powerful flavors of exotic spices, sour cherry bitterness, some fresh, brambly blackberries, a little bit of savory wood spice and a hint of toasty smoke.
  
  Comparing this wine to the 2003 Moncerbal tasted alongside would be like comparing apples and oranges. Whereas Moncerbal 2003 was soft, mellow and going rapidly downhill, Las Lamas 2003 is a remarkably youthful and incredibly tightly-knit powerhouse that still seems like it is going to be developing for a long time. Besides the slightly maroon hue in its appearance, the wine betrays its age in no way, speaking volumes of its cellaring potential. Most likely it will take another 15 years or so for this wine to reach its apogee. Overall this wine is a complete antithesis to the light, crunchy and Burgundian style of Mencía that I like, so as a Mencía this is really not my ideal wine. However, as a very big and ageworthy blockbuster this wine is in a league of its own - although big, extracted and chewy, it is remarkably well-balanced, impressively structured and what oak notes the wine might have shown in its youth feel very much integrated at this point. A hell of a wine; not cheap at 109€, but manages to give value for the money.

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  12/19/2014 - d'Artagnan wrote: 93 Points

  Lunch de Noël des anciens de C&S: Nez de fruit noir, frais et floral, avec des notes d'eucalyptus qui m'entrainaient vers le Nouveau Monde. J'étais sur un Cayuse. Le vin est puissant en attaque, mais avec des rondeurs et de la fraicheur, ainsi qu'une très belle finale d'une élégance inattendue. Frais et fruité, original, plein et savoureux. C'est un peu "big" mais je l'ai trouvé superbe. 93 pts

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  2/24/2014 - fatboi wrote: 87 Points

  Really wanted to love this... Had it open over the course of 2 hours and it never quite opened up. Very dark color which I hoped would lead to a stronger nose but never showed up. Very smooth but nothing to distinguish it.

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