Raúl Pérez

Ultreia, El Rapolao, Bierzo, 2022

Name: Ultreia, El Rapolao, Bierzo
Brand: Raúl Pérez
Price: 250 GBP

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2022
3x1.5L
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£351.53

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2022
6x75cl
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£250.00

Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

Aromatic, herb-infused forest fruits make way for a sculpted, plummy feel on the palate, allied to traces of iron and soil. The 2022 charms from the beginning and feels more composed and polished this year, just as the 2023 does from barrel: two attractive vintages back-to-back. Typically, Ultreia Rapolao has a certain inner strength and grip and but that is less true of 2022 at this stage. The Ultreia bottling of El Rapolao comes from two plots that together amount to 0.5HA. Steep and high, one sits at 630m (80% of the blend) and one at 580m. Both are on hard, dark red clay and stony soils in the centre of the vineyard. The vines are 120 years old; a field blend mix of Mencia, Trousseau and Alicante Bouschet, yielding 3,000kg per hectare on average (half that of the La Vizcaina bottling). Ultreia El Rapolao is fermented with whole bunches and now always aged for a year in the same foudré, equating to 1,200 bottles. One of Bierzo’s undisputed Grand Cru sites.

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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.