| Producer | Raul Perez |
| Country | Spain |
| Region | Bierzo |
| Varietal | Mencia |
| Vintage | 2020 |
| Sku | 02463 |
| Size | 750ml |
| ABV | 13.50% |
Close out on remaining bottles. The blend is similar to Perez's Ultreia St Jacques, but all the fruit comes from a tiny plot of 100+ year-old, ungrafted, vines in Bierzo's El Rapolao cru. The whole grape bunches go into open-top chestnut vats, ferment at their own pace with native yeasts, and then sit and soak for 30 days after fermentation with no sulfur while a film of flor yeast grows across the top. The free-run juice is drained into two used 500-liter and one 225 liter French oak casks to rest for 12 months. Around 1,500 bottles are filled.
If you're looking for a blockbuster, big and bold, wine this is NOT it! This is all about delicacy, silkiness, and purity, with highly polished tannins and a floral, blue-fruited, finsih that does not quit. It's delicious now, probably at peak from 2025 and best enjoyed through the end of the decade. Lovely stuff.
"There is a creamy touch in the 2020 Ultreia El Rapolao, perhaps because one of the three barrels used was a little newer. Mencía is so delicate and finicky that a small detail like that is noticeable in the finished wine. The grape is also very sensitive to the picking date. The texture is finely tannic and with an herbal touch, with exactly the same mouthfeel as the 2019. It ends with a bitter touch in the finish."
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