Raul Perez, Ultreia Petra Vintage:2018 well-watered August

well-watered August

The wine is aged in very mild oak in order to maintain the purity of the fruit and the robust tannins that come naturally to it

There is plenty of Chablis typicity present in the form of notes of iodine

this is already in its prime time drinking window

the 2018 Ontogeny Proprietary Red Wine comes barreling out of the glass with intensely fruity notes of crème de cassis

Raul Perez, Ultreia Petra Vintage:2018 well-watered AugustThe 2018 Ultreia Petra comes from the Ponferrada zone, from a very small south facing plot on slate soils at high altitudesome 820 meters above sea levelthat was harvested around one month after the vines from Valtuille. He has around 900 vines here. This is a little exuberant, with fruit and flowers. The palate reveals abundant tannins, and the wine needs a longer time in oak to polish those tannins. It's a wine that also needs time in bottle. But