Ultreia, Godello, Bierzo, 2018

Name: Ultreia, Godello, Bierzo
Brand: Raúl Pérez

Available Vintages

all 2022

justerini & brooks tasting note

The 2022 Ultreia Godello has a bright and engaging personality with white fruits and blossoms, delivered with a pleasing cut and edge to the fruit. A wine with a sense of delicacy and drive, it is now produced from 85% domaine fruit split: 65% Cacabelos, 10% Ponferrada and 10% Valtuille. Just 15% comes from purchased grapes and each year this “entry-level” white seems to grow in finesse. All plots are fermented in oak tank and assembled just before bottling. Aging takes place in barrels of various sizes and ages.

critic reviews

92+/100Luis Gutierrez,Robert Parker Wine Advocate

2017 was the year of frost, and production was very small. So, we jumped to the entry-level white 2018 Ultreia Godello, which was produced with purchased grapes from different plots and new vineyards (including one in the zone of Ponferrada and also vineyards in Cacabelos and Valtuille), from a mix of soils, slate and clay. This sets the tone of the whites from the vintage: it has perfect ripeness, freshness and harmony and is very clean, with precision and clarity. It's subtly varietal and was fermented in used barriques and used oak foudres of different sizes. They never rack or do batonnage, and they never use sulfur until bottling. It's fuller and more volume, which is compensated by more acidity. The elevage lasts until the next harvest, when they need the oak containers, trying to keep them empty for the shortest amount of time possible. The wine is approachable and a bit gentler, for a wider audience. They produced 26,000 bottles. It was bottled in late August 2019.

DRINKING WINDOW 2020 - 2024

date of review 06/2020