Raul Perez, Bierzo Penitencia Vintage:2015 for the blends

for the blends

attractively fresh and ripe nose offers up notes of both red and dark currant

a huge mid-palate and a layered

I tasted bottle number 4

Raul Perez, Bierzo Penitencia Vintage:2015 for the blendsGrown 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.