Raul Perez (La Vizcaina) Bierzo Mencia La Poulosa 2019 NO20230712 From the producer: This is

From the producer: This is malt driven spirit is truly a reflection of contemporary Japanese whisky

4 hectares here

It's a throwback to the days before flying winemakers homogenized the region

who spends half her year making wine at Burgundy's Domaine Dujac

with plenty of the region’s depth and finish

Raul Perez (La Vizcaina) Bierzo Mencia La Poulosa 2019 NO20230712 From the producer: This isRaul Perez is the winemaker who dragged Bierzo out of obscurity and made Mencia a grape people argue about. La Vizcaina is his home turf project around Valtuille de Abajo, working the old parcels of slate and clay in the hills of northwest Spain, where the vines are frequently ancient and the plots are tiny. La Poulosa is one of the single site bottlings, and like the rest of the range it goes light on extraction and heavy on site expression. Mencia