2023 Valtuille Villegas
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The 2023 Valtuille Villegas comes from a vineyard on sandy soils by Raúl Pérez's house, in a place that tends to produce more elegant wines. It fermented with 35% full clusters with 27 days of maceration in oak vats and matured in 500-liter French oak barrels for 12 months. This was one of the highlights of the vintage, pale, perfumed, ethereal and high-pitched. This is really fine-boned, the most elegant of the 2023s. It has 12.45% alcohol with a higher pH of 3.76 and 5.1 grams of acidity. This is my favorite today. 1,150 bottles produced. It was bottled in March 2025.
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Luis Gutiérrez, Wine Advocate
Joaquin Hidalgo, Vinous
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The 2023 Valtuille Villegas is 100% Mencía from a sandy parcel in Valtuille. The aromas are shy yet enticing, with cherry, peach, violet and lavender. The palate is slender, agile and lightly gripping, offering a clean, energetic profile. At 12.5% alcohol, it delivers elegance and represents one of the most modern, benchmark expressions of Mencía in Bierzo.