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28 februari 2026

Bierzo: deze wijnstreek moet je echt leren kennen


2023 is het toppunt van elegantie voor
Álvaro Palacios’ Grand cru’s in Bierzo: 
97+/100, 98/100, 99/100 en 100/100!!
De Grand Cru’s van Descendientes de J.Palacios scoorden nog nooit zo hoog als met jaargang 2023!
Een aantal weken geleden hadden we het al over de buitenaardse La Faraona 2023. Deze werd bekroond met de perfecte score van 100/100 en is intussen uitverkocht.

Maar wist u dat deze La Faraona 3 fantastische grand Cru’s naast zich heeft, bovendien voor een fractie van de prijs…!!??

Moncerbal (98/100)
Las Lamas (97+/100)
En nu…
Is er bovendien een nieuwe Grand Cru die voor de eerste keer werd gemaakt in 2023 : “Al Chelo”.
En deze haalde al dadelijk 99/100 in zijn eerste jaargang.
Ja hallo!

Ik proefde zowel de 2023 als 2024 in het begin van de zomer en was ongelooflijk onder de indruk. U weet misschien intussen al dat meestal mijn persoonlijke favoriet “Las Lamas” is. Deze keer ging de nieuwe “Al Chelo” echter met de pluimen lopen.

Deze nieuwe Grand Cru is werkelijk fabuleus.
Álvaro Palacios is natuurlijk de 3e grote naam in het rijtje van Spanjes grote wijnnamen, naast Vega Sicilia en Pingus.

Zijn La Faraona kreeg reeds 3x de perfecte score van 100/100 net zoals zijn l’Ermita uit Priorat!

Hij behoort hiermee tot het kransje van de allergrootste wijnmakers in Spanje.
 
Let op: zeer beperkt beschikbaar!
Max 6 fl per klant.

Deze wijnen zijn ook in magnum beschikbaar, maar slechts in zeer kleine aantallen.
 

 

 

 

Desc. de J. Palacios
Al Chelo 2023
Bierzo

99/100
 

446,49 €
 

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R. Parker: 99/100
"There are not many new wines here, and the first new one in a very long time will be the 2023 Al Chelo, from a selection of plots in the Valdafoz zone of the village of Corullón. It comes from a 100% north-facing slope, a very steep slope reaching 70% in some parts. Here, the grapes used to ripen only three years per decade, but it now benefits from the warmer seasons. It also wasn't usually vinified separately, because it was challenging and the volumes were small (it's also a favorite of the wild boars). This is 95% Mencía with 5% Jerez from 50- to 90-year-old vines on steep slopes with a northeast exposition at 612 to 675 meters in altitude on laminar slate soils that are worked organically with cover crops. The grapes were partially destemmed in oak vats with punching down of the cap and matured in barrel and bocoy for 8.5 months, a little shorter than the rest of 2023s. It comes in at 13% alcohol and with a pH of 3.59. It has the stony and austere nose of the 2023s, even more austere than Corullón and Moncerbal; it's a little reductive and flinty but with that elegant reduction that gives it a mineral feeling. It's full of energy and light and is clean, precise and focused, with great purity. It has powerful and energetic tannins, but it has a different texture from the rest. This was the most backward of the bottled 2023s. In fact, it felt like it was getting more and more closed with time in the glass, getting more and more backward. This is the only 2023 that showed a little oak; they thought it needed it to polish those tannins. Anyway, this is the one I'll keep for longer even if it's difficult to resist pulling the cork."
 

 

 

 

Desc. de J. Palacios
Moncerbal 2023
Bierzo

98/100
 

127,96 €
 

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Desc. de J. Palacios
Moncerbal 2023
Magnum
Bierzo
 

280,72 €
 

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R. Parker: 98/100
"Last year, Álvaro Palacios defined the 2023 Moncerbal as juicy and crystalline, an energetic red from 2.1 hectares in this paraje from Corullón where the soils are shallow and the vines are on steep slopes at 610 to 730 meters above sea level. It's 92% Mencía and 8% Jerez that fermented with some full clusters and indigenous yeasts in oak vats with manual punching down of the cap. Like most of the 2023s, it had an élevage of around 10 months and has contained alcohol, 13%, and in this case a slightly lower pH, 3.6. It's paler and also the most aromatic, floral, ethereal and insinuating. This is a vineyard that excels in less warm vintages, but it's also a vineyard that has suffered a lot from the drought in the last few years and needs some time to recover. Still, this has the textbook herbal side, with finesse and precision. It's perfumed, floral and showy, with notes of tangerine peel and also fennel and aniseed, pungent, mysterious and intoxicating... There is a transparency, symmetry and elegance. This is super approachable already."
 

 

 

 

Desc. de J. Palacios
Las Lamas 2023
Bierzo

97+/100
 

127,96 €
 

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Desc. de J. Palacios
Las Lamas 2023
Magnum
Bierzo
 

280,72 €
 

Bestel hier
R. Parker: 97+/100
"The bottled 2023 Las Lamas is also stunning. But it's a vineyard that shines more in warm years, when it surpasses Moncerbal (like in 2022); in a cooler year, it suffers a bit more, while Moncerbal thrives. It comes from the 1.6 hectares they have in a single vineyard (they bought a last plot in 2017). It fermented with some full clusters in oak vats and matured in foudre and large barrels for 10.6 months. It comes in at 13% alcohol and with a pH of 3.61. It has the austerity of the 2023s, which is remarkable for a warmish year, and the balance that Las Lamas can have in dry years. But 2023 was not as extreme as 2022 was, and the competition from the 2023 Moncerbal was tough. It's more austere than the 2022 Las Lamas, consistent with the rest of the 2023s"
 
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