2022 Raul Perez Ultreia La Claudina Godello, Bierzo, Spain Rive di Collalto and needs half an hour

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

focused black fruit flavors with restrained mint

Grippy tannins and ample acidity frame it all

The Anjou Blanc from Pascal Biotteau is a lovely young example of chenin blanc

40% Grenache and 5% each of Carignan and Mourvèdre

2022 Raul Perez Ultreia La Claudina Godello, Bierzo, Spain Rive di Collalto and needs half an hourFrom 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,