Raul Perez Ultreia La Claudina Godello, Bierzo, Spain 2022 Vina Olabarri Aromas of baking spices

Aromas of baking spices

fragrant scents of cranberry

solid red with blackcurrant

or white meat dishes -

with defined tannins and a minerally

Raul Perez Ultreia La Claudina Godello, Bierzo, Spain 2022 Vina Olabarri Aromas of baking spicesFrom the village where the Prez family has farmed for more than three centuries, La Claudina is Ral Prez at his most quietly radical a single sandy parcel of old vine Godello in Valtuille de Abajo, fermented spontaneously in one old foudre and left to grow a veil of flor through the spring, exactly as fine Sherry or Jura whites do. The result is Godello reimagined: biscuit, wafer, and white flower laced with raw almond and a saline mineral pulse,