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Spec sheet

TypeRed wine
Region
Grapes
Producer
AllergensContains sulfites
Alcohol contenti14.5%

The wine

The Compañía de Vinos de Telmo Rodríguez wine firm has travelled far and wide in Spain to discover a complex country of wines with incredibly diverse, rich and unique winemaking landscapes. They have based their project on understanding how previous generations worked, using only local grape varieties, recovering long-lost vineyards, finding the best areas for production and creating terroir wines which interpret historic vines in a natural way.

Pegaso was born in 1999 as part of a project seeking out old Grenache vines in the Sierra de Gredos hills and working to ensure their survival in the extreme landscape and climate of Cebreros, one of the most recently registered DO appellations in Spain. They bought their first vines here, wonderful Grenache plants left to grow wild at a forgotten and hard-to-work site located at an altitude over 1000 metres above sea level. The slate seam they found at Arrebatacapas, unique in the Gredos region, showed promise that great wines could be created here.

Their simplest and most accessible wine, Pegaso Zeta, was born 20 years later from old vines cultivated by the firm and their suppliers using organic agriculture methods. Grapes are harvested by hand and the fermented wine is aged for six months in 500-litre French wooden barrels before standing for a further 6 months in stainless steel tanks. It may be a simple wine, but it is brimming with personality – a small, yet great wine.

In the glass, Pegaso Zeta displays a claret-cherry colour with a low-medium intensity, and dense translucent legs. A gentle nose of ripe red fruits, herbal aromas like bay leaves and other spices, and earthy hints give it a rustic feel while the granite and slate of Gredos produce mineral aromas. It is pure pleasure in the mouth; an intense, fresh and deep wine with a certain degree of bitterness highlighting toasted notes, red fruit, silky tannins and, once again, a welcoming rusticity making it a very moreish wine. Don't miss out - undoubtedly, Pegaso Zeta is a safe bet well worth trying.

What does this wine taste like?

Light
Bold
Smooth
Tannic
Dry
Sweet
Soft
Acidic

Ratings and awards

202292+ PK
202193 PK
202092+ PK
201992 PK93 PN
201891+ PK93 PN
201790+ PK
PK: ParkerPN: Peñín

Wine critics reviewsReviews by Parker and Parker

The 2022 Pegaso Zeta fermented in different materials and also matured in different vessels: oak, stainless steel and clay. Perhaps it has a little more slate in the blend this year, which seems to work quite well in warm vintages, and also because the fire affected the vines more in the granite part. This wine has a lot of finesse and really shows incredibly well for what the vintage looked like early on. It is perhaps a more Mediterranean wine, with lots of aromatic herbs and a more extroverted personality. The 15% alcohol was unnoticeable and balanced by a pH of 3.3 and 5.84 grams of acidity. 28,008 bottles were produced. It was bottled between June and October 2024.

— Luís Gutiérrez (21/11/2024)Robert Parker Wine Advocate Vintage 2022 - 92+ PARKER

The floral, expressive and elegant 2021 Pegaso Zeta, from their own grapes and purchased ones, fermented with indigenous yeasts in oak and stainless steel vats and amphorae, and it matured in a combination of 500- and 600-liter barrels and stainless steel vats for 12 months. It has a bright ruby color with the grip from the fine tannins and an herbal touch that provides freshness. It has to be the finest Zeta to date. 28,739 bottles were filled in August 2022.

— Luís Gutiérrez (31/05/2023)Robert Parker Wine Advocate Vintage 2021 - 93 PARKER

Customer reviews

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5 reviews
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Winemaking

Ageing period6 months
Type of woodFrench oak

Vineyards

SoilSlate / Granit
ClimateContinental

The winery

Compañía de Vinos de Telmo Rodríguez

Compañía de Vinos de Telmo Rodríguez

Telmo Rodríguez and Pablo Eguzkiza started work on their wine project in 1994 with, as they admit, few resources but plenty of ideas. The firm they set up, Compañía de Vinos de Telmo Rodríguez, has grown based on the pair's travels around winemaking regions to understand and experience Spain as a complex and unique winemaking country with incredibly diverse and rich landscapes.   Top quality winemaking traditions, experience in...

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