Ultreia de Valtuille, Bierzo, 2015

The most complex and complete of the 2015s, with aromatic diversity encapsulating both sweet and spicy, with notes of black cherry, star anise, graphite and earth. Forest fruit. Fine grained, sandy tannins and a more profound, velvety mouthfeel. A higher proportion of Bastardo naturally present in the vineyard yields wonderful aromatics married to a sultry, soulful texture which comes from its full south exposition and low yielding vines. Sandy topsoil atop hard limestone makes this both a low yielding and early ripening site. The plot is called Las Villegas in the village of Valtuille del Abajo. 3-4 months of skin contact before pressing in January and aging in neutral barrels for a year. One of the great Bierzo wines.