La Faraona 2020
1,145.90€ (Inc. VAT bot. 75 cl.) / Spain
Descendientes de J. Palacios
Bierzo
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The pale and delicate 2020 La Faraona is the lowest in alcohol at 13.5% and is more reductive than its siblings—flinty and faintly smoky. It needs breathing, so it might be a good idea to decant it in advance if you're going to open a bottle any time soon. What's important is that the palate is terribly balanced, with lots of ultra fine tannins, silky, soft, full of flavors, elegant, complex and nuanced. It has lots of inner energy and tension, and it's subtle and ethereal. The finish is full of sweet red fruit and violets, nicely balanced by the tannins and the acidity. It's delicious and should develop nicely in bottle and drink well throughout its life. It's hard to compare with previous vintages, as this is more delicate than any previous years. It's a different style but every bit as good as 2019. The vineyard is 85% Mencía and the rest other varieties; when they bought the vineyard, it was 50% white grapes, and they have slowly been replanting and regrafting it, looking after every single plant. It's a half hectare at the top of the slope, at 975 meters in altitude, one of the highest vineyards in Bierzo. Like Moncerbal and Las Lamas, La Faraona is certified organic starting in 2020. Bravo! 1,400 bottles were filled in October 2021.
Features
Type of wine
Pairings
Cured Cheese, Meat Rice Dishes, Red Meat, Game food, Stew and hotpots
Style
Occasions
Winery
Size
Country
Region
Appellation
Alcohol
14.5%
Grapes
Serving
Between 16ºC and 18ºC
Winemaking
Aged for 20 months in French oak barrels.
Description
La Faraona is a red wine produced in the D.O. Bierzo by the Descendientes de J. Palacios winery in Villafranca del Bierzo, León.
This is a wine made from selected grapes of the Mencía variety, which come from a single plot planted more than 70 years ago, with a steep slope in the area known as El Ferrol, in the highest part of Corullón.
Winemaking
The grapes were harvested by hand. The grapes are partially destemmed. Alcoholic fermentation is carried out in a small open oak vat with indigenous yeasts and "bazuqueos".
After maceration, which lasted 36 days, malolactic fermentation took place in wooden vats. The wine was aged for 9 months and a half in French oak barrels and bottled unclarified and unfiltered.
Taste
La Faraona is a red wine with an expressive, elegant and complex aroma. In the mouth it is tasty, easy to drink, with good acidity, spicy, balsamic, long and very mineral.
A sublime, balanced and elegant wine.
La Faraona is a majestic wine prepared in a very artisanal way. It is a reverence to nature where the grape is respected at all times. In the words of its creators, it is a profound wine, full of mystery, and the experience of smelling and tasting it is almost mystical.
La Faraona is a red wine to be enjoyed with stews, roast poultry, lamb and dishes with black truffle.
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