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Castro Ventosa El Castro de Valtuille Mencía Joven

Red · Bierzo · España

Castro Ventosa El Castro de Valtuille Mencía Joven

Scored from 2,189 calibrated Vivino reviewers. Cohort: Red · España (178 wines).

Grape · Mencia
21.5%
Global percentile
vs. all 69,234 ranked wines
22.0%
In-cohort percentile
Red · España · 178 wines
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AI-adjusted percentile
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Is El Castro de Valtuille Mencía Joven a good wine?

What reviewers say

“Wow, just wow. This is one of those rare wines that smell strange but on the palate are just spectacular. On the nose: a distinct nail polish smell like acetone or acetaldehyde.”

From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.

Summary

Castro Ventosa El Castro de Valtuille Mencía Joven is a Spanish red made from Mencia. It comes from Bierzo, in Spain. It sits in the under $15 band, on a lowest observed 750 ml price of $7.25.

2,189 Vivino reviewers are calibrated for this bottle, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 2,241 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track. The cohort it is ranked inside holds 178 Spanish reds.

Cohort
Red · España · 178 wines
Calibrated reviewers
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