Raul Perez Ultreia de Paluezas Bierzo, Spain 2022 Azienda Agricola Musella vanilla and flint

vanilla and flint

stewed blackberry

vanilla and noble woods

and the wine was lighter

Raul Perez Ultreia de Paluezas Bierzo, Spain 2022 Azienda Agricola Musella vanilla and flintThe 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.