Raúl Pérez

La Poulosa, La Vizcaina de Vinos, Bierzo, 2018

Name: La Poulosa, La Vizcaina de Vinos, Bierzo
Brand: Raúl Pérez
Price: 153.53 GBP

93/100

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

94/100

Vinous

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Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

La Poulosa is always a seductive little number, as notes of spearmint and black currant waft from the glass. Glossy black cherries and a certain sweet mossy-ness hits the palate. Silky, sweet and refined, black strawberries and plum stones emerge with aeration. Sweet, suave tannins and gently textured this is more open and immediately attractive versus the edgier, tighter La Vitoriana. An east facing, clay-dominant site planted at 550m in 1936. A blend of 4 plot totalling 1.7 hectares, the deeper, water-retaining soils means that La Poulosa is to our mind perhaps the most consistent in the La Vizcaina range - being smooth fruited, ripe and handsome, year-in year-out. A slightly higher proportion of Garnacha in the natural field blend here perhaps also helps to add an extra layer of refinement. 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.

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Critic Reviews

94/100

Josh Raynolds,

Vinous

Saturated garnet. An expansive bouquet evokes ripe red fruits, pungent flowers, allspice and licorice, and a mineral topnote lends urgency. Palate-coating raspberry, bitter cherry and candied lavender flavors deepen and turn sweeter with air. Smoothly blends power and delicacy and finishes very long and focused, with fine-grained tannins adding subtle grip.

drinking window 2022 - 2031

date of review 06/2021

93/100

Luis Gutierrez,

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

La Poulosa is quite regular and ripe, with notes of prunes, and even though there is more freshness in 2018, the 2018 La Vizcaina La Poulosa shows closer to the 2017, keeping the profile of the vineyard, which is very strong. In fact, there is only half a degree difference in alcohol between this 2018 and the 2017. There is more fruit here, and it's juicy and approachable, with integrated oak (they started replacing the 225-liter oak barrels with 500-liter ones), more freshness and a livelier palate. The tannins are round, with no edges, despite the fact that all the La Vizcaina range ferments with 100% full clusters. Some 5,600 bottles produced. It was bottled in April 2020.

drinking window 2020 - 2026

date of review 06/2020

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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.