Raul Perez Ultreia de Paluezas Bierzo, Spain 2022 Catena Alta An exuberant and dense wine

An exuberant and dense wine

its ripe but has fantastic linear drive through its floral-noted finish

A briar patch of a wine

intertwined with subtle notes of tobacco

Raul Perez Ultreia de Paluezas Bierzo, Spain 2022 Catena Alta An exuberant and dense wineThe Ultreia Paluezas is the bottling that stops Ral Prez in his tracks every vintage and the reason is in the ground. Where almost all of Bierzo sits on slate, this tiny parcel rests on limestone, a rarity that lends the wine a finesse and lift found nowhere else in the range. Perfumed and elegant, it is more Burgundian than Rhne in spirit: floral and red fruited on the nose, velvety on the palate, framed by very fine, chalky tannins. From roughly 0.