Raul Perez (La Vizcaina) Bierzo Mencia La Poulosa 2019 CS20230718 " From a tiny four-hectare

" From a tiny four-hectare Gevrey estate he has run nearly alone since 1983

food-friendly

firm palate

silico-clay-limestone

He always maintained the site has more in common with Chambolle-Musigny than the rest of Nuits

Raul Perez (La Vizcaina) Bierzo Mencia La Poulosa 2019 CS20230718 " From a tiny four-hectareRaul 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