Raul Perez (La Vizcaina) Bierzo Mencia La Poulosa 2019 NO20230712 with plenty of the region’s

with plenty of the region’s depth and finish

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

fossil-rich south-facing slope he acquired in 2018

energetic pour for warm days

Raul Perez (La Vizcaina) Bierzo Mencia La Poulosa 2019 NO20230712 with plenty of the region’sRaul 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