2024 Castro Ventosa Valtuille Vino de Villa
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| Type of Wine | |
|---|---|
| Country | Spain |
| Region | |
| Appellation | |
| Winery | |
| Vintage | 2024 |
| Grape | |
| Content (Alc) | Standard (0.75 ltr) (13.5%) |
| Drink window | 2026 - 2032 |
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The Castro Ventosa Valtuille Vino de Villa is made by Cesar, the nephew of Raúl Pérez, at the family estate Castro Ventosa and is a fantastic wine with an excellent price/quality. The 2021 Valtuille Vino de Villa from Bodegas y Viñedos Castro Ventosa is a red wine from the Bierzo region in Spain. This wine is a blend of 85% Mencía, 8% Alicante Bouschet, 2% Bastardo and 5% white grapes and other varieties
The grapes come from several plots in the village of Valtuille, including "La Rata" (bordering "El Rapolao"), "El Val" and "Mata los Pardos" (known for the production of Valtuille Cepas Centenarias). The vineyards are located on a mix of clay, clay-stone and sandy soils and the age of the vineyards are over 100 years old.
Approximately 25-30% of the grapes were fermented whole in 5,000-liter wooden vats with indigenous yeasts. The
maceration lasts about 60 days, with daily immersion of the cap without the use of pumps.
After pressing, the wine rested for one to two months, followed by a year of aging in used 225- and 500-liter barrels to minimize the influence of wood on the flavor and preserve the terroir character.
Color: Bright ruby red with a violet hue at the edges.
Nose: Expressive aromas of purple fruits such as plums and black cherries.
Taste: Subtle fruit notes mixed with woody spices and forest herbs, balanced with fresh acidity and fine tannins.
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| Type of Wine | Red |
|---|---|
| Country | Spain |
| Region | Castilla y Leon |
| Appellation | Bierzo |
| Winery | Raul Perez |
| Grape | Mencia |
| Biological certified | No |
| Natural wine | No |
| Vegan | No |
| Vintage | 2024 |
| Drinking as of | 2026 |
| Drinking till | 2032 |
| Alcohol % | 13.5 |
| Alcohol free/low | No |
| Content | Standard (0.75 ltr) |
| Oak aging | Yes |
| Sparkling | No |
| Dessert wine | No |
| Closure | Cork |
| Parker rating | 96 |
| James Suckling rating | 94 |
| Vinous rating | 92 |
| Tasting Profiles | Bloemig, Donker fruit, Fris, Mineraal, Rood fruit, Tannines |
| Drink moments | Met vrienden, Terras, Voor alledag |
| Sommy Pairing Beschrijving | Deze wijn toont frisse, zuivere aroma's van rode kersen en granaatappel met een bloemige violette ondertoon, elegante, fijne tannines en een slanke, precieze zuurgraad die het profiel sierlijk en zuiver houdt. Daardoor werkt hij uitstekend bij varkensvlees, lam, charcuterie en barbecue omdat de zuurgraad en fijne tannines het vet doorsnijden en de florale en fruitige tonen de hartige, zoute en rokerige smaken aanvullen. Vooral gegrilde of geroosterde bereidingen zoals gegrilde varkenskoteletten met kruiden of chimichurri, langzaam geroosterd lam of kruidige, lichtgerookte worst en charcuterieborden met rijpe kazen brengen de wijn het beste tot zijn recht. |
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The Wine Advocate
RP 94+
Reviewed by:
Luis Gutiérrez
Release Price:
$45
Drink Date:
2025 - 2033
The village red 2023 Valtuille Vino de Villa has a moderate 12.88% alcohol, even lower than in 2022. The grapes are from centenary vines with a field blend of Mencía, Garnacha Tintorera, Trousseau and other whites. It fermented with 30% full clusters and indigenous yeasts in oak vats with a maceration of around 40 days, and it matured in well-seasoned, neutral barrels of different sizes—225, 400 and 500 liters. It showcases the year, which was a year of purity and freshness, with very fine tannins and great balance. 12,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in April 2025.
Castro Ventosa, the winery from the Pérez family in Bierzo, keeps working on the zoning and site orientation of their wines. They are using more and more 500-liter barrels, looking for more finesse and elegance in their wines. They produce between 200,000 and 300,000 bottles from their 85 hectares of vineyards in Valtuille de Abajo plus one hectare of Godello in Cabañas Raras.
After the very warm and dry 2022, 2023 was a cooler vintage with rain at the beginning of the harvest. The wines have a floral, serious and elegant profile with a contained alcohol content of 12.5% to 13%. In the years when it rains during the harvest—which is more and more of a rarity, but it was the norm in the past—the wines are finer-boned, and in the warmer years, the wines are darker, in all senses.
This is a project that tends to be overlooked, but it deserves as much attention as the personal project from Raúl Pérez and his nephew César Márquez, as it has the hand and experience of both and the backbone of the family vineyards. The wines are very clean; the whites are a little more reductive, but the reds have lots of purity and are homogeneous and very representative of their birthplace. They have some of the best vineyards in the village, and these are some of the best wines they have produced, with precision and cleanliness.
Published: Jul 10, 2025
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James Suckling
Score
94
Avg Price (ex-tax)
$ 17
Bodegas Castro Ventosa Bierzo Valtuille Vino de Villa 2023
Thursday, Oct 09, 2025
Color
Red
Country
Spain
Region
Castilla y León
Vintage
2023
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This has a nose of underripe cherries, geraniums and an enveloping floral lift. The palate is juicy and balanced, linear and chiseled, with a nuanced structure and impressive precision. There's a quiet solidity that’s complete and well integrated. Fermented with 25% whole clusters. Drink now or hold.
Jacobo García Andrade
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Vinous
92
Drinking Window
2025 - 2035
From: El Bierzo & Galicia: The Sil River Illuminates a Different Side of Spanish Wine (Sep 2025)
The 2023 Valtuille Vino de Villa is 100% Mencía. This was planted on sandy clay soils, with 25% whole clusters and aged for a year in used oak. Intense red fruit aromas show cherry, a touch of pomegranate and violet. Fresh and agile, with a slender, primary palate and slight grip, it delivers a precise, lifted profile at 13.4% alcohol.
- By Joaquín Hidalgo, September 2025
The Pérez family winery has long been the creative hub of Valtuille winemaking, bottling paraje-specific wines since 2000. Today, César Márquez oversees winemaking. Some of the bottlings at Castro Ventosa are cornerstones of the region, marked by the grip of Valtuille’s clay soils and varying proportions of whole cluster. To grasp the house style, readers should seek out the Valtuille Villegas and Valtuille Rapolao wines, as well as the Valtuille Cepas Centenarias.
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Raúl Pérez is without a doubt the most mediatic winemaker in all of Spain today. However, his wines are almost impossible to find! Everyone talks about it, but few have already tasted them. Raúl is present in numerous appellations and regions, not only in Spain, but also in South Africa, Portugal, South America.
We have been following Raúl since 2000; at that time he was still working as an oenologist at the Castro Ventosa family estate in Valtuille de Abajo. He also worked as an oenologist-consultant for other domains in Bierzo. He refined the Mencia to unprecedented heights, also helped Ricardo and Alvaro Palacios start their top domain, while constantly tasting and trying other wines from around the world. Raúl is a restless nature and his curiosity and passion take him further and further.
Between 2005 and 2007 he left the family domain and left for a wine odyssey. In a few years he made a name for himself and became a real 'star' in the wine world. The common thread in his work is the recovery of vieilles vignes from indigenous grape varieties and the making of authentic wines with a lot of character and personality. Or to put it in his own words, "I'd rather make an undrinkably bad Galician wine, but at least let it be a Galician wine." He has therefore already vinified dozens of wines in countless different regions (mostly in the northwest of Spain, and also beyond), but which have never been marketed. He tests, he tries, and often fails. Of course, this way of working brings him a lot of experience, with which he will later be able to get the most out of one grape variety or one region.
Today he makes or contributes to more than 80 wines. In the end, he more or less settled himself by renovating two of his own mini-bodegas: one in the Tierra de León region, in the village of Valdevimbre, and another in his native Bierzo, where he is in the village of Salas de los Barrios. own Ultreia's, the absolute essence of Mencía. Raúl always works organically and as pure as possible. It uses the minimum of SO2. The wines we get from him are always in minimal quantities and we hardly ever know what we are going to get, from what year and how much ... That is Raúl in all.
Deze wijn toont frisse, zuivere aroma's van rode kersen en granaatappel met een bloemige violette ondertoon, elegante, fijne tannines en een slanke, precieze zuurgraad die het profiel sierlijk en zuiver houdt. Daardoor werkt hij uitstekend bij varkensvlees, lam, charcuterie en barbecue omdat de zuurgraad en fijne tannines het vet doorsnijden en de florale en fruitige tonen de hartige, zoute en rokerige smaken aanvullen. Vooral gegrilde of geroosterde bereidingen zoals gegrilde varkenskoteletten met kruiden of chimichurri, langzaam geroosterd lam of kruidige, lichtgerookte worst en charcuterieborden met rijpe kazen brengen de wijn het beste tot zijn recht.
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