Raul Perez (La Vizcaina) Bierzo Mencia La Poulosa 2019 CS20230718 The kind of premier cru

The kind of premier cru that makes Chambolle's reputation

firm palate

silico-clay-limestone

Because the vines are young and the plots fall outside the appellation lines

Raul Perez (La Vizcaina) Bierzo Mencia La Poulosa 2019 CS20230718 The kind of premier cruRaul 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