According to Wine Spectator, the best wine in the world for value for money :
Pétalos 2023
We have just received the Pétalos 2023.
Another tour de force by Álvaro and Ricardo Palacios in Bierzo.
Pétalos is the entry wine of the estate, made mainly from Mencía.
A red wine without pretence, yet with plenty of depth and flavour.
Five years ago, Wine Spectator already named it the best red wine in the world for its value for money !!
From the very beginning, Ricardo has worked biodynamically, no small task on these often steep slate slopes.
But the result is without doubt
one of the very best value-for-money wines from Bierzo.
See what R. Parker has to say :
R. Parker: 93+/100
“The 2023 Pétalos has around 20% grapes from Corullón and the rest bought from around 100 families across Bierzo, approximately 91% Mencía, 8% whites and 1% other reds that fermented in open-top oak and stainless steel vats with indigenous yeast. Malolactic fermentation took a couple of months in oak and stainless steel, and the wine matured in barriques and bocoyes for 10 months. It comes in at 13% alcohol with a pH of 3.74. It has a serious nose that combines berry fruit with herbs and a licorice twist, and it is a little tighter and more herbal, denoting more sensation of freshness in the wine even if the year was also warmish. But the peaks of heat did not reach the highs they did in 2022. It makes you think of the Bierzo wines from yesteryear, with the rain during the harvest. It's elegant but there's weight. Despite the price level, this is a wine that aged beautifully in bottle, something you don't expect in an entry-level wine. This keeps its position as one of the best values in Spain.“