la vitoriana la vizcaina de vinos bierzo

Raúl Pérez

La Vitoriana, La Vizcaina de Vinos, Bierzo, 2021

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

97/100

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

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2021
75cl
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£26.78
2021
6x75cl
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£160.73
2021
6x75cl
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£160.73

Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

La Vitoriana offers the perfect balance of aromatic complexity, fruit focus and power. Planted in 1881, La Vitoriana is still on Pie Franco rootstocks, facing north at 600m elevation. Whole bunch fermented in large, open-top wooden fermenters with no temperature control. Skin contact varies from year to year but can be for as long as 90 days. Aged primarily in large tronconic vat with a small part in used 500L barrique for a year. The La Vizcaina bottling comes from the middle and lower sandier parts of the slope, while the Ultreia bottling comes from a tiny, estate-owned plot at the top.

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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.

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Critic Reviews

97/100

Luis Gutierrez,

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

I love the 2021 La Vizcaina La Vitoriana, where they use the westernmost part of the vineyard with more sand in the soils, mostly north facing. It's a wine with a floral nose that is aromatic and perfumed, elegant but with clout, with concentration and power. They have been picking earlier and earlier, lowering the alcohol, and they feel more comfortable below 13%; they removed the rusticity and extraction, and the wine is more elegant than ever. It reminds me of the 2018, with similar a profile of freshness. They produced around 5,000 liters from the one+ hectare they have here.

drinking window 2024 - 2032

date of review 08/2023

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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.