Raul Perez, Ultreia Paluezas other_regions_australia An exotically perfumed bouquet evokes

An exotically perfumed bouquet evokes black and blue fruit preserves

The wine's best asset is the intact and vibrant quality of the primary fruitso presented now

so there's no reason to defer gratification but also no rush to drink up

white flower and a bit of anise that can also be found on the intensely stony and big-bodied flavors that are almost aggressively mineral in character before culminating in a palate staining and driving finish where the intensity does a slow but sure build from the dense mid-palate to the explosive finale

while the medium to full-bodied palate is rich and silky in texture

Raul Perez, Ultreia Paluezas other_regions_australia An exotically perfumed bouquet evokesThe Ultreia bottling that called my attention from the moment the wines were poured is the 2021 Ultreia Paluezas. I've only tasted a couple of vintages of this before, but Ral Prez remembers that it has called my attention every time. The distinct feature here is that the plot has limestone soils, which are very rare in Bierzo, and the majority of the place is on slate soils. So, this has the special finesse and elegance of the limestone, and it's