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Valtuille Vitoriana, Bodegas Castro Ventosa 2020

RegionSpain
Subregion Spain > Castilla y León > Bierzo
ColourRed
TypeStill
Grape VarietyMencia

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Tasting Notes

The 2020 Valtuille La Vitoriana comes from one of the family's oldest plots, one of the oldest vineyards in the village too, a place with more clay. It is still marked a little by the oak, perhaps the effect of the year, because the barrels were fourth use. It fermented with 30% full clusters in an oak vat and matured in a single 500-liter oak barrel. It has 13.47% alcohol and a medium-bodied palate with fine-grained and chalky tannins. 580 bottles produced. It was bottled in January 2022. 2023 - 2030

97
Luis Gutierrez, Wine Advocate, August 2023

The Vitoriana is fine-boned and precise in 2020. Highly fragrant with cherry blossom and violet, together with a little struck match rediction, it is immediately enticing. The airy fruit shows the same cool sheen on the palate, weightlessly intense and chiselled into the fine grained tannins. A wine of pure vibrancy and deceptive length, it is vertical rather than broad. Delicious now, it will doubtless evolve beautifully in bottle. Ethereal.

96
Thomas Parker MW, Farr Vintners, February 2023
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