Raul Perez (La Vizcaina) Bierzo Mencia La Poulosa 2019 CS20230718 and rose: the most charming

and rose: the most charming face of Beaujolais

" From a tiny four-hectare Gevrey estate he has run nearly alone since 1983

and the 2019

Because the vines are young and the plots fall outside the appellation lines

The kind of premier cru that makes Chambolle's reputation

Raul Perez (La Vizcaina) Bierzo Mencia La Poulosa 2019 CS20230718 and rose: the most charmingRaul Perez is the winemaker who dragged Bierzo out of obscurity and made Mencia a grape people argue about. La Vizcaina is his home turf project around Valtuille de Abajo, working the old parcels of slate and clay in the hills of northwest Spain, where the vines are frequently ancient and the plots are tiny. La Poulosa is one of the single site bottlings, and like the rest of the range it goes light on extraction and heavy on site expression. Mencia