Raúl Pérez

Ultreia, Saint Jacques, Bierzo, 2021

Name: Ultreia, Saint Jacques, Bierzo
Brand: Raúl Pérez
Price: 189.47 GBP

93/100

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

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2021
75cl
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£15.79
2021
12x75cl
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£189.47

Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

“Saint Jacques is by far the most important wine I make.” Old vine material from all over Bierzo. Mostly clay and sand-based sites, roughly 85% clay and 15% sand, fermented in traditional oak vats (ex-Vega Sicilia) with 80% whole bunches and kept on the skins for 2 months before pressing into neutral barrel for a further 10 months of aging. Mencia based but picked according to the natural field composition, therefore including smaller proportions of Alicante Bouschet, Trousseau, Palomino, and other wild grapes. One of Spain’s most exciting entry-level wines. Named after the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage (aka Chemin de Saint Jacques) which passes through the Bierzo region.

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Critic Reviews

93/100

Luis Gutierrez,

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

The biggest volume of the winery is the 2021 Ultreia Saint Jacques, which represents some 170,000 bottles, and according to Raul Perez, it's the most difficult wine to make here. They now work a lot to produce this wine, a blend of 11 wines selected from the 17 they made. It's a wine that represents Bierzo and is from a year when they used more grapes from sandy soils. It has 13.16% alcohol and a pH of 3.66; it's serious and restrained but juicy and easy to drink. Seventy percent of the wine matured in barrel and the rest in troncoconic oak vats.

drinking window 2023 - 2028

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.