Raúl Pérez

El Rapolao, La Vizcaina de Vinos, Bierzo, 2020

Name: El Rapolao, La Vizcaina de Vinos, Bierzo
Brand: Raúl Pérez
Price: 160.73 GBP

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2020
75cl
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£26.78
Last Few
2020
75cl
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£26.78
2020
6x75cl
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£160.73
Last Few
2020
6x75cl
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£160.73
2020
3x1.5L
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£166.73

Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

Increasingly recognised as Valtuille’s official Grand Cru, Raul explained that it is now impossible to buy more land in El Rapolao. It has become the most labelled single vineyard wine in Bierzo (three of which are Raul’s) and is celebrated for the complexity of fruit and depth, always allied to freshness. The tannins are sweet and the floral top notes, driven by the Bastardo in the field blend, are highly alluring and come together to produce a hugely complex, richly-flavoured Bierzo. Raul has the biggest holdings in Rapolao. The La Vizcaina bottling coming from two plots; one mid-slope and one in the lower part, together averaging 550m of elevation. The older parcel in the mid-slope was planted in the 1920s on hard clay and stony soils and the younger, lower plot in the 1980s on clay with more organic material. The blend meets salinity and perfume with silkiness and style. Whole bunch fermented in wood and kept on the skins for 30-45 days before 12 months aging in purely neutral 500L French casks.

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Wines not bought directly from the vineyard are either sourced from trusted suppliers, with whom we share the same philosophy and rigour in buying, or from our own network of Cellarers customers. These customers’ wines are stored in optimal conditions in Octavian Corsham and, in the vast majority of cases, have been stored by us since the wine was first shipped. We do not purchase wine from auctions.

We feel it is equally important to for our customers that the case they buy and leave in storage with us is exactly the same case they subsequently have delivered. This may sound obvious and straightforward, yet we are one of very few merchants to have taken measures to ensure this.

We have created a system where every case is independent, thereby ensuring a trail of ownership and peace of mind for every customer.

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Justerinis ensures that every case of wine stored with Cellarers (Wines) Ltd has a unique identifier and customer’s name, almost unheard of in the industry as it is expensive to administer. These details are printed and placed on every case which is logged and recorded under your account name and kept in the world’s most renowned storage facility, Octavian Corsham.

This information is sent from our systems to the warehouse every day to ensure the trail of ownership is verified and upheld.

While customer reserves are stored in Corsham, our physical stocks are kept in Hoddesdon, further providing a geographical separation between customers’ wines with Cellarers and Justerinis’ own stock.

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This product may contain sulphites. Full allergen information is available upon request, please call our Customer Relations Team on +44 (0)20 7484 6430.