Descendientes de J. Palacios Villa de Corullon 2022 (Case 6 x 75cl)

Case price equivalent to £40 per bottle

Descendientes de J. Palacios Villa de Corullon

Region: Bierzo, Spain

Vintage: 2022

Bottle size: 75cl

Grape: Mencia

ABV: 13.5%

Sourced from some 20 vineyards across Corullón, it’s a field blend of Mencía with red and white grapes. Lightly floral, it starts with bright cherries and opens to an earthy, savoury, textured mid-palate, with the keynote fine lift of acidity, a characteristic of all these wines.

Even once he made waves with his Priorat wines, Álvaro’s pioneering spirit never wavered. In 1997, Álvaro and his nephew Ricardo Pérez Palacios were seduced by the undiscovered potential of the Bierzo region in north-western Spain, a place then better known for agriculture and its gold mining past. Bierzo is on the Camino del Sangiago and in fact, the route used to go right past the old Palacios winery in Villafranca del Bierzo. More recently, Álvaro and Ricardo have built a new state of the art winery in amongst the vineyards of Corullón, better suited to making and storing the region’s best wines.