Raul Perez, Bierzo Penitencia Size:6x750ml Best from 2025 through 2045

Best from 2025 through 2045

The estate’s 2004 Barolo Vigna Rionda is beautifully perfumed

The medium weight flavors possess a highly seductive and refined mouthfeel while delivering evident minerality on the persistent

While not particularly dense

This too is firmly reduced and unreadable

Raul Perez, Bierzo Penitencia Size:6x750ml Best from 2025 through 2045Grown within the DO zone of Ribeira Sacra, not far from Bierzo, but bottled without reference to the DO, this wine is a blend of mostly Menca with Caio and Bastardo, aged in used 500l French barrels It's completely different to Perez's El Rapolao, showing lovely cassis and floral aromas with an intense, finely grained structure in the mouth. It has a restraint on the finish which gives the tension that's sometimes referred to as minerality.