2021 Raúl Pérez Ultreia Saint Jacques
The Wine Advocate
RP 93
Reviewed by:Luis Gutiérrez
Release Price:$30
Drink Date:2023 - 2028 ⇒飲み頃に入っています
The biggest volume of the winery is the 2021 Ultreia Saint Jacques, which represents some 170,000 bottles, and according to Raúl Pérez, it's the most difficult wine to make here. They now work a lot to produce this wine, a blend of 11 wines selected from the 17 they made. It's a wine that represents Bierzo and is from a year when they used more grapes from sandy soils. It has 13.16% alcohol and a pH of 3.66; it's serious and restrained but juicy and easy to drink. Seventy percent of the wine matured in barrel and the rest in troncoconic oak vats.
2022 Raúl Pérez Ultreia Godello
The Wine Advocate
RP 93
Reviewed by:Luis Gutiérrez
Release Price:$40
Drink Date:2024 - 2029 ⇒飲み頃に入っています
The white 2022 Ultreia Godello is a blend of five different plots, most of them in Cacabelos. It has a very expressive nose, with notes of yellow fruit, flowers and white pepper. It's round and fleshy, with moderate ripeness and alcohol (around 12.5%), a little balsamic with the tender mouthfeel from the riper year. It had different vinifications and élevages and comes through as complex and balanced, quite impressive for the year. 45,000 bottles produced.
バルトゥイエとカカベロスの複数区画のブレンド。樹齢25~30年の畑。
洋梨や白桃の瑞々しいアロマに、スイカズラとレモンピールを思わせる心地よい苦味のアクセント。ふくよかでボリュームがあるが、フレッシュな酸とミネラルがワインにシャープさを与えている。
ゴデーリョ100%
2021 Raúl Pérez Ultreia Godello
The Wine Advocate
RP 93+
Reviewed by: Luis Gutiérrez
Release Price:$40
Drink Date: 2023 - 2028 ⇒飲み頃に入っています
The white 2021 Ultreia Godello shows freshness, restraint, balance and good freshness, with a very low pH of 3.19. It was produced with grapes mostly from Cacabelos and some from around Valtuille, mostly from their own vineyards; they purchased a large vineyard with some vines planted in 1906 and another plot regrafted from Palomino, and this wine is now some 70% from their own vines. It fermented in oak foudres and barriques. It has contained ripeness, 13.5% alcohol and a very fresh and mineral profile. They produced around 35,000 bottles of this.
Published: Aug 11, 2023
メンシアのスタンダードキュヴェとなるワイン。バルトゥイエ・デ・アバホ村内の複数の区画のブレンド。樹齢50年以上。チェリーやラズベリーのフレッシュなアロマ。
ジューシーで丸みがあり、フレッシュでバランスが取れている1本。
2020 Raúl Pérez Ultreia Saint Jacques
The Wine Advocate
RP (93-94)
Reviewed by: Luis Gutiérrez
Release Price: $30
Drink Date: 2023 - 2026 ⇒飲み頃に入っています
They had not bottled the 2020 Ultreia Saint Jacques yet and were still waiting for the labels (and they label the day after they bottle), so I caught an unbottled sample that was very tender and fruit-driven, primary and quite open. He used more stems and full clusters in 2020, and since 2018, they have removed the percentage of white grapes that used to be included in the wine. It's a little more Mediterranean, with aromatic herbs and a more powerful palate. There will be some 120,000 bottles from 2020.
Published: Feb 01, 2022
2021 Raúl Pérez Ultreia Cova de la Raposa
The Wine Advocate
RP 93
Reviewed by: Luis Gutiérrez
Release Price: $128
Drink Date: 2023 - 2028 ⇒飲み頃に入っています
Again, the cooler 2021 seems to have worked nicely for the 2021 Ultreia Cova de la Raposa, which compensates for the warmer place. Despite the moderate alcohol, 13.1%, the aromatic expression is quite ripe, and there are toasty notes redolent of roasted sunflower seeds. It's from a small plot with southeast exposure that only produces enough wine for a 500-liter oak barrel. It has abundant tannins and toasted notes that make a comeback in the finish. It needs powerful food to tame the tannins. 600 bottles produced.
Published: Aug 11, 2023
2021 Raúl Pérez La Vizcaína Las Gundiñas
The Wine Advocate
RP 94
Reviewed by: Luis Gutiérrez
Release Price: $50
Drink Date: 2023 - 2030 ⇒飲み頃に入っています
The 2021 La Vizcaína Las Gundiñas has a slightly earthy touch and is a variable wine that feels quite harmonious and clean, as it's from a plot that sometimes suffers in cooler years. They are going to change the vinification of this plot to achieve more precision. They used 100% full clusters and matured it in well-seasoned, neutral 500-liter oak vats. It is cleaner and more precise this year. 5,500 bottles were filled in May 2020.
Published: Aug 11, 2023
2021 Raúl Pérez La Vizcaína La Vitoriana
The Wine Advocate
RP 97
Reviewed by: Luis Gutiérrez
Release Price: $50
Drink Date: 2024 - 2032 ⇒飲み頃に入っています
I love the 2021 La Vizcaína La Vitoriana, where they use the westernmost part of the vineyard with more sand in the soils, mostly north facing. It's a wine with a floral nose that is aromatic and perfumed, elegant but with clout, with concentration and power. They have been picking earlier and earlier, lowering the alcohol, and they feel more comfortable below 13%; they removed the rusticity and extraction, and the wine is more elegant than ever. It reminds me of the 2018, with similar a profile of freshness. They produced around 5,000 liters from the one+ hectare they have here.
Published: Aug 11, 2023
2021 Raúl Pérez La Vizcaína El Rapolao
The Wine Advocate
RP 95
Reviewed by: Luis Gutiérrez
Release Price: $50
Drink Date: 2024 - 2030 ⇒飲み頃に入っています
They now own 100% of the grapes used for the El Rapolao and the 2021 La Vizcaína El Rapolao, from the youngest vines in the paraje. There is a change from the previous year, as this time they used a 1,500-liter oak foudre to age part of the wine. It's a very clean year, with some notes of toasty sesame seeds, produced with a short maceration and moderate extraction. They put the wine in barrel after 45 days of maceration, and they feel they have been able to keep more freshness in the wine. It did show very well, with an iron touch and some slightly dusty tannins. It does have a rustic and earthy touch.
Published: Aug 11, 2023
2021 Raúl Pérez Ultreia Valtuille
The Wine Advocate
RP 97
Reviewed by: Luis Gutiérrez
Release Price: $128
Drink Date: 2025 - 2035
The 2021 Ultreia Valtuille was produced with the clay part of their Villegas plot, as the sandy part was used for the new Ultreia Villegas bottling but introduced the lower part of the vineyard with more soil and more clay. They produced more or less the same amount as in previous years, some 18 barriques; but in 2021, they introduced foudres for part of the wine, and in this first year, the foudre was newer (they used it to ferment a white before). They also started renewing their barrels, so the wines show a little more oak than usual. It has moderate alcohol and mellow acidity, and it seems like the longer cycle and the slow ripening burned some acidity.
Published: Aug 11, 2023
2020 Raúl Pérez Ultreia
The Wine Advocate
RP 91
Reviewed by: Luis Gutiérrez
Release Price: $38
Drink Date: 2023 - 2027 ⇒飲み頃に入っています
The effect of the warmer vintage is noticeable in the 2020 Ultreia when tasted next to other wines from 2021, a cooler year. This comes from the zone of Molinaseca in Ponferrada on slate soils with more Alicante Bouschet that delivers a darker profile, in color and aromatic palette, quite different from the other Ultreia range. It feels quite heady and ripe, with notes of prunes and bruised apples. The palate reveals abundant, slightly dusty tannins. It's a little too ripe for my taste. Some 9,000 bottles produced.
Published: Aug 11, 2023
2021 Raúl Pérez Sketch
The Wine Advocate
RP 96+
Reviewed by: Luis Gutiérrez
Release Price: $75
Drink Date: 2023 - 2031 ⇒飲み頃に入っています
The nose of the 2021 Sketch is plethoric and expressive. This comes from one single vineyard that is close and similar to those from the Atalier vines, with a strong sea influence (you see the sea from the vineyard), straight, vertical, marine, with notes of iodine and seashells, with citrus acidity and very tasty flavors. It's sharp and austere (the label shows 12.5% alcohol) and vibrant. It has purity and delineation, and it's clean and precise like a laser cut. There are around 2,000 bottles.
Published: Nov 17, 2023
2021 Raúl Pérez Ultreia La Claudina
The Wine Advocate
RP 95
Reviewed by: Luis Gutiérrez
Release Price: $90
Drink Date: 2023 - 2029 ⇒飲み頃に入っています
There is a smoky twist in the 2021 Ultreia La Claudina, a low-yielding vintage, from a plot in Valtuille on sandy soils. The grapes struggled to ripen, and the wine has a more austere profile than the wines from yesteryear, when it was a lot more exotic and exuberant but with a spicy twist that they reckon comes from the foudre used. It's from one of the oldest plots from the newer plantings in the 1980s. 1,300 bottles produced.
Published: Aug 11, 2023
2021 Raúl Pérez La Vizcaína La del Vivo
The Wine Advocate
RP 95+
Reviewed by: Luis Gutiérrez
Release Price: $50
Drink Date: 2023 - 2029 ⇒飲み頃に入っています
The cooler 2021 produced very fresh whites; they started picking grapes with 12.1% to 12.2% alcohol, and the 2021 La Vizcaína La del Vivo has a profile similar to the 2018. They don't do malolactic in their whites, and the wines have very good freshness and acidity. It comes from two plots on clay and sand. Part of the wine was fermented and aged in tinaja and developed some flor that gives the wine a very tasty and spicy twist. This is the first year when they only used foudres (no more barrels). The lees are never stirred, and the profile of the wine is not leesy. There is austerity, and it is bone-dry, with the oak neatly folded into the wine. 9,000 bottles produced.
Published: Aug 11, 2023
■「世界最高のワインメーカーの1人であり最高の才能を持つ革新者」by Decanter
■「私が試飲したワインは言葉では言い表せないほど素晴らしく、職人的だ。信じられないなら実際に体験すべきだ」by WA
■「これほど短期間に、これほど大きな影響を与えたワインメーカーは世界中どこを探してもいないと言ってよい」by Vinous
凄いことになっております話題の生産者登場です
2020 Raúl Pérez La Vizcaína La Vitoriana
RP 97
Reviewed by:Luis Gutiérrez
Release Price:$45
Drink Date:2023 - 2029 ⇒飲み頃に入っています
The 2020 La Vizcaína La Vitoriana matured mostly in a troncoconic oak foudre and had a very short time in barrel. This wine has more Alicante Bouschet in the blend than others, and they didn't include the white grapes in the vineyard. But against all logic, the wine has more finesse than the 2019. 6,000 bottles produced.