Descendientes Palacios Corullon 2022

$54.99 on 6+* (code: 6saves3)$57.99 reg96 Wine AdvocateThe bottled village red 2022 Corullón was produced with grapes from around 90 different plots and had a short élevage of eight months in barrel. It is 93% Mencía, 4% Jerez (Palomino), 2.5% Alicante Bouschet and 0.5% Gran Negro bottled at 13.5% alcohol. It's floral and aromatic, but compared with the more-austere 2023, it comes through as more generous, riper and a little gentler, with more fruit but with elegance and freshness that nobody expected during the torrid summer and harvest. It keeps the freshness and poise, with fine-grained tannins. 25,392 bottles and some smaller and larger formats produced. It was bottled in August and November 2023, as they had to stop for the harvest.This is one of the best wines in all of Spain for around $50. From some of the highest altitude vineyard in Spain, Mencia from Corullon is just not the same as any other in Spain, let alone the rest of Bierzo that are several thousand feet below these v