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Croian & Hein · The cellar · La Faraona, Descendientes de J. Palacios
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La Faraona, Descendientes de J. Palacios

2003 · 2014
Origin
Corullón, Bierzo
Grape
Mencía
Vintages held
2003 · 2014
Delivery
Insured and temperature-controlled to Switzerland

Quoted on request. We do not publish prices, and quantities are often one.

A single terrace of half a hectare on quartz and slate, worked by mule by Ricardo Pérez Palacios. Around six hundred bottles a year and, in 2014, a perfect score.

What the cellar holds

In the cellar: 2003 (two bottles), 2013, 2014 (three bottles, 100 points), 2015, 2017, 2018 (twelve, 100 points), 2019, 2020.

Vintages in the cellar

Croian & Hein places bottles like this one with a small circle of collectors in Switzerland: discreetly, by appointment, and with the condition of every bottle described plainly before it travels.