Raul Perez (La Vizcaina) Bierzo Mencia La Poulosa 2019 NO20230712 4 hectares here

4 hectares here

fossil-rich south-facing slope he acquired in 2018

the most legendary winemaker in modern Burgundy

Elegant and confident

and produced with minimal sulfur

Raul Perez (La Vizcaina) Bierzo Mencia La Poulosa 2019 NO20230712 4 hectares hereRaul Perez is the winemaker who dragged Bierzo out of obscurity and made Mencia a grape people argue about. La Vizcaina is his home turf project around Valtuille de Abajo, working the old parcels of slate and clay in the hills of northwest Spain, where the vines are frequently ancient and the plots are tiny. La Poulosa is one of the single site bottlings, and like the rest of the range it goes light on extraction and heavy on site expression. Mencia