2022 Raul Perez Ultreia La Claudina Godello, Bierzo, Spain Rive di Collalto nutty nose

nutty nose

this pinot offers fresh cherries

with the generous flavor profile wrapped around sinewy tannins

and needs half an hour in the glass to reveal smoked vanilla bean

2022 Raul Perez Ultreia La Claudina Godello, Bierzo, Spain Rive di Collalto nutty noseFrom 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,