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The August 2023 Auction: Part 3
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Estimate: $135
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"The more recent 2014 Pegaso Barrancos de Pizarra was finally my favorite of all the bottles I tasted in this sitting, which were quite a few. This aged in ancient large clay amphorae and used 500- and 600-liter French oak barrels for two years and shows no oak whatsoever in the nose or palate. The year seems to have achieved a perfect ripening of the grapes, and there are notes of aromatic herbs and acid berries, even a touch of blood orange. There are no hints of over-ripeness at all. Seeing how the 2002 has aged and how the 2008 was showing today, I have no doubt this 2014 will live for 15 years. 13,951 bottles produced. Marc Isart, winemaker at Bernabeleva, has also joined Telmo Rodríguez and Pablo Eguzkiza to help in the Gredos part of their Compañía de Vinos Telmo Rodríguez. I tasted three vintages of the two Pegaso bottlings, plus the first year of a new entry-level red called Zeta. It was fascinating to see how the soil gets more evident with time in bottle; the slate really comes out in beef blood, meat and iron, and the granite is subtler but tends to give a less deep wine. For comparison's sake I also tasted the 2002 (the first vintage was 1999), when they only produced one wine, the Barrancos de Pizarra, and the wine was truly outstanding. As the wines hadn't been reviewed before I decided to include all those tasting notes here too."
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"The more recent 2014 Pegaso Barrancos de Pizarra was finally my favorite of all the bottles I tasted in this sitting, which were quite a few. This aged in ancient large clay amphorae and used 500- and 600-liter French oak barrels for two years and shows no oak whatsoever in the nose or palate. The year seems to have achieved a perfect ripening of the grapes, and there are notes of aromatic herbs and acid berries, even a touch of blood orange. There are no hints of over-ripeness at all. Seeing how the 2002 has aged and how the 2008 was showing today, I have no doubt this 2014 will live for 15 years. 13,951 bottles produced. Marc Isart, winemaker at Bernabeleva, has also joined Telmo Rodríguez and Pablo Eguzkiza to help in the Gredos part of their Compañía de Vinos Telmo Rodríguez. I tasted three vintages of the two Pegaso bottlings, plus the first year of a new entry-level red called Zeta. It was fascinating to see how the soil gets more evident with time in bottle; the slate really comes out in beef blood, meat and iron, and the granite is subtler but tends to give a less deep wine. For comparison's sake I also tasted the 2002 (the first vintage was 1999), when they only produced one wine, the Barrancos de Pizarra, and the wine was truly outstanding. As the wines hadn't been reviewed before I decided to include all those tasting notes here too."
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Spain has the largest area under vine of any country and a deep tradition of oak-aged reds. Tempranillo-based wines from Rioja and Ribera del Duero, alongside Priorat's Garnacha and Carinena, anchor its fine-wine reputation.
A warm-climate red giving generous, high-alcohol wines of red fruit and spice. It anchors southern Rhone blends and old-vine wines in Spain and Australia.