Raul Pérez
La Vizcaina La Vitoriana Lomas de Valtuille Bierzo Mencia
Bierzo, Castilla y León, Spain
Starts out with a bit of reductive stink. Serious blackberries and tart fruits, with long acids. This can be enjoyed now with a long decant. Lots of material and extraction and concentration, ie this is a big wine, but the fruit is a bit sidelined. Generous take is this needs another 5+ years to come together. But it is pretty high tannin and drying... and way too extracted for my taste now. Maybe the fruit will stand up with time.
Starts out with a bit of reductive stink. Serious blackberries and tart fruits, with long acids. This can be enjoyed now with a long decant. Lots of material and extraction and concentration, ie this is a big wine, but the fruit is a bit sidelined. Generous take is this needs another 5+ years to come together. But it is pretty high tannin and drying... and way too extracted for my taste now. Maybe the fruit will stand up with time.
Apr 26th, 2021
An epic vintage of La Vizcaina. A wine with great poise, elegance, depth, and texture. Raul Perez deserves every accolade and bit of attention he is receiving. Marvelous Mencia.
An epic vintage of La Vizcaina. A wine with great poise, elegance, depth, and texture. Raul Perez deserves every accolade and bit of attention he is receiving. Marvelous Mencia.
Oct 1st, 2020Incredible depth and complexity in this Mencia. Needs air. Floral, stoney, and dark, ripe fruit on the nose. Black cherries and crushed raspberries are met with soft earth and a Beaujolais-esque granitic quality. Concentration and structure but with a restrained elegance. Beautiful wine.
Incredible depth and complexity in this Mencia. Needs air. Floral, stoney, and dark, ripe fruit on the nose. Black cherries and crushed raspberries are met with soft earth and a Beaujolais-esque granitic quality. Concentration and structure but with a restrained elegance. Beautiful wine.
Jul 29th, 2019
Made in the natty/dank way, an approach that does nothing for this wine...unless you enjoy the smell of cooked vegetables, raw herbs and tobacco in your red wine. However, there’s also a purity, juiciness and energy that wholly redeems it in the end. A really good wine that could’ve been great. #raulperez #bierzo #mencia
Made in the natty/dank way, an approach that does nothing for this wine...unless you enjoy the smell of cooked vegetables, raw herbs and tobacco in your red wine. However, there’s also a purity, juiciness and energy that wholly redeems it in the end. A really good wine that could’ve been great. #raulperez #bierzo #mencia
Jan 14th, 2019
Wow big extracted blackberry spice big extraction of fruit medium plus tannins and bigger than average abv but super well balanced this Mencia would be perfect with smoked of Bbqed meat
Wow big extracted blackberry spice big extraction of fruit medium plus tannins and bigger than average abv but super well balanced this Mencia would be perfect with smoked of Bbqed meat
Oct 6th, 2018
This is really smooth. Red fruit, and florals. Not tart, or big and everything seems integrated. Incredible how smooth this is for as young as it is. Paired perfectly with chicken curry and beef panang. SS
This is really smooth. Red fruit, and florals. Not tart, or big and everything seems integrated. Incredible how smooth this is for as young as it is. Paired perfectly with chicken curry and beef panang. SS
Jan 3rd, 2018