Winemaker Notes
Zeta is Pegaso's Cebreros village wine, produced from over 60-year-old, organically-farmed, bush-trained Garnacha vines. It offers a vision of the clarity, harmony, and elegance of Cebreros Garnacha, farmed by experienced hands. Garnacha grapes from vineyards planted on slate and granite soils are blended in this bottling, lending depth and fruit character. The vineyards included in the Zeta blend are El Robledillo, El Mojón, and El Presidente, which range in altitude between 890m to 920m. Pegaso wines are made with low intervention and minimal sulfur at bottling.
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
Aromas of bright red fruits and fresh Mediterranean herbs, offering immediacy and charm. On the palate, it’s medium- to full-bodied, with incisive tannins that frame the core of preserved red berries. There’s a firm, energetic structure beneath the brightness, giving the wine tension and clarity. This always offers tremendous value. Drink or hold.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2023 Pegaso Zeta is the entry-level village wine from Cebreros, using a mixture of granite and slate soils and mostly purchased grapes from growers. It fermented in used Garbelotto vats with 15% to 20% full clusters and the other half in stainless steel with destemmed grapes with 10- to 15-day macerations, shorter and with a soft extraction, and it matured in the oak vats and in used 400-, 500- and 600-liter barrels and a small part in stainless steel. It has a bright ruby color and a harmonious and elegant nose with notes of flowers, berries and herbs, a medium-bodied palate and fine tannins. It's very approachable, clean and focused.
Spanish red wine is known for being bold, heady, rustic and age-worthy, Spain is truly a one-of-a-kind wine-producing nation. A great majority of the country is hot, arid and drought-ridden, and since irrigation has only been recently introduced and (controversially) accepted, viticulture has sustained—and flourished—only through a great understanding of Spain’s particular conditions. Large spacing between vines allows each enough resources to survive and as a result, the country has the most acreage under vine compared to any other country, but is usually third in production.
Of the Spanish red wines, the most planted and respected grape variety is Tempranillo, the star of Spain’s Rioja and Ribera del Duero regions. Priorat specializes in bold red blends, Jumilla has gained global recognition for its single varietal Monastrell and Utiel-Requena has garnered recent attention for its reds made of Bobal.