2018 Raul Pérez Bierzo Ultreia La Claudina

Community Tasting Notes (7) Avg Score: 90.7 points

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  10/8/2023 - JensAgo Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Quite a few years since I last had Gimli’s Bierzo Godello La Claudina (now v18, 13.5% ABV) - thrilled to revisit this incredible wine, unique w a bright combination of smoky Atlantic notes, sleekness yet w considerable depth & creaminess. White golden, slight green reflections in the glass. Nose bursts w smoke & gun-powder, mildly restrained yellow apples & peach, nuts - truly complex scent-composition. Palate takes you on a roller-coaster ride w a sleek mid-palate, fine acidic structure & a salty, lenghty finish! Very impressive & to my liking.

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  3/5/2023 - Cote d'Or wrote:

  Tasted over 2 hrs
  -translucent pale yellow
  -waxy lanolin eventually yields some sweet-ish almost tropical yellow fruit
  -med/med+ acidity is both gentle and intense on the back end, med- weight softly textured delicate sappy tangy subtle white fruit with a mild bitter note and good minerality, very good now
  -nose seems quite evolved but still fresh delicate and complex on the palate, more sophisticated and elegant than the basic Bierzo bottling

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  7/1/2021 - jocelyng wrote: 88 Points

  Citrus nose. Citrus mouth. Citrus finish. Empyreumatic notes add some complexity. But citrus flavors really dominate.
  Parker 95 ?!?

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  3/8/2021 - Rambling wino Likes this wine:

  Bruised apple, licorice, burnt orange, earthy mushroom.
  
  Palette is citrusy and nutty with ginger spice, phenolic architecture and snappy lemon peel drive.
  
  This is a feral creature and young. We need more of these in the world.

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  12/2/2020 - Porphyr wrote: 89 Points

  I kind of enjoyed this but my wife hated this, and
  she certainly has a point when she says the wine has 0 fruit in it. There is plenty of beeswax, green wood, phenolics and all the rest which I suppose comes from the oak barrels but could also be variety driven as I am not familiar with the grape.
  I found this kind of racy but I do see her point...

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