Community Tasting Notes 5

• dfcrutcher Likes this wine: 92 points

  February 6, 2023 - Nice medium-weight wine with good acidic balance. None of the awkwardness of previous bottles. Drinking great now, but probably will hold its quality for a few years. No hurry.

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• dfcrutcher Likes this wine: 89 points

  August 29, 2021 - A relatively tannic wine that is likely a bit over the hill. Had it with a steak, so it held its own, but afterwards it became a bit awkward with a slightly hard finish. The fruit had faded a bit more than the tannins had softened. Still, not a bad wine. Just waited too long.

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• indiscriminate palate wrote:

  October 20, 2016 - TTTG - The Resurrection (brief notes; blind wines) (Granby, CT): Loads and loads of VA. Rich, sharp, and piercing. Acid and nail polish remover. After reveal, I noted that I had very much enjoyed several bottles of the 2009 vintage of this wine, so I have no idea what happened here. Bleh.

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• Jozefs wrote: 91 points

  April 15, 2011 - Sweet black fruit, refreshing acidity, minerals, sweet tannins, well integrated alcohol, reminds me of a Pic St Loup, quite classy, balanced, not over the top, a distinct mineral touch that's quite interesting. I'm not sure this was indeed the 2006, because the neck label of the bottle had dissapeared and the cork did not print a vintage. Good qpr.

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• Spencer wrote: 91 points

  January 16, 2009 - Even with decanting, this remained quite closed and hard the first night. There was about half a bottle left over, which I poured back into the bottle. The next night, it was an almost unrecognizably different wine. Jay Miller described this wine as Burgundian, but to me it is far more reminiscent of a young Bordeaux from a less-ripe vintage, a la 2004 Sociando Mallet. I have no experience with ageing mencia, but I would wager that this wine will be fantastic in about ten years. Based on this, I would be curious to try some of Perez' upper-level wines.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2006
• Type Red
• Producer Raul Pérez
• Varietal Mencía
• Designation Ultreia St. Jacques
• Vineyard n/a
• Country Spain
• Region Castilla y León
• SubRegion n/a
• Appellation Bierzo

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• In Cellars 8 (57%)
• Consumed 6 (43%)

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