La Poulosa, La Vizcaina de Vinos, Bierzo, 2020

The 2020 La Poulosa is typically round and charming with notes of blue fruits and bramble, crisp dark chocolate and sea salt. The finish is long and smooth and finishes on wild flowers. 2020 continues the trend toward earlier picking in this vineyard, tempering the lavishness of the site, accentuating freshness and finesse. An east facing, clay-dominant site planted at 550m in 1936. A blend of 4 plots totalling 1.7 hectares, the deeper, water-retaining soils means that La Poulosa is the most stylistically consistent in the La Vizcaina range - being smoothly dark-fruited, ripe and fleshy, year-in year-out. A slightly higher proportion of Garnacha in the natural field blend here. Whole bunch fermented in large open-top wooden fermenters with no temperature control, kept on the skins for 30-45 days on average and aged for 12 months in used 500L casks and 225L barriques.