Raúl Pérez

Sketch, Albariño, Rias Baixas, 2018

Name: Sketch, Albariño, Rias Baixas
Brand: Raúl Pérez
Price: 81.59 GBP

96/100

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

95/100

Vinous

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2018
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£81.59

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Provenance in fine wine

When it comes to purchasing wine, provenance is of utmost importance. A wine’s history – where it’s sourced from and how it’s been stored – can have an enormous influence on the eventual enjoyment it provides. At Justerini & Brooks, we can trace nearly every case back to the domaine, estate or Château it originally came from; we ship from over 200 wine producers throughout the world.

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.

The Journey

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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Cellarers (Wines) Ltd is a legally separate limited company from Justerini & Brooks which currently holds approximately £450 million worth of customer reserves. It is fully insured to catastrophic loss. Many merchants will state that wine in their care is fully insured, but in reality this is on an individual case basis with insufficient cover for total loss as this is prohibitively expensive. The cover provided by Octavian and Justerini & Brooks is unmatched.

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Critic Reviews

95/100

Josh Raynolds,

Vinous

Bright straw-yellow. Powerful, mineral-driven nectarine, pear, orange pith, iodine and floral qualities on the intensely perfumed nose. Chewy, tightly focused and dry in the mouth, offering vibrant orchard and pit fruit flavors complemented by suggestions of tarragon, sweet butter, smoky minerals and an exotic hint of saffron. Shows impressive depth as well as energy and finishes minerally, focused and impressively long, with resonating floral and orchard fruit notes.

drinking window 2023 - 2031

date of review 06/2021

96/100

Luis Gutierrez,

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

The 2018 Sketch comes from the A Telleira vineyard from Forjas del Salnes and it used to be the same as A Telleira from Forjas, but that's not the case anymore. The wine is sold without appellation of origin, and for quite some time, it has been quite mysterious and sought after, as it's a wine they have used to experiment with underwater aging, in the sea, but those bottles have never been sold and are only drunk by themselves with friends, to see what happens and if the exchange increases the salinity of the wine (to which the answer is yes!). But the Sketch you buy in the shops has never been anywhere near seawater. Myths and legends abound... Anyway, it took them some time to master the fermentation and aging of Albarino in oak, as the obsession was to get the acidity to integrate and the palate to polish but without getting any oak aromas or flavors. The wine comes through as elegant and refined, with some peachy notes combined with the varietal, herbal and mineral notes. The palate is sleek, with extra freshness in this 2018, with a saline and faintly bitter finish. This is plain delicious. It fermented and matured in 750-liter oak barrels.

drinking window 2020 - 2026

date of review 06/2020

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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.