BODEGAS Y VINEDOS RAUL PEREZ BIERZO BLANCO ULTREIA GODELLO 750ML 2023

Pure godello from young vines, showing aromas of citrus and almonds. Medium- to full-bodied, it’s balanced and flavorful, with stone fruit. Ample, delicious and persistent. Grapes undergo a very long fermentation. Sourced from 11 hectares, 80% from Cacabelos, the rest from Villa de Canes. Drink or hold.

The 2023 Ultreia Godello, mostly from the zone of Cacabelos, and the vineyards have been transformed to organic. This is an unusual wine for this bottling because the fermentation was very slow (nine months) and without temperature control, and the wine went through malolactic—it's the first white he bottled with full malolactic. Most (70%) of the wine was in large stainless steel and the rest in used barriques. This seems to be happening again in 2024. It has a golden color and a ripe nose of yellow fruit and a round, tender mouthfeel with a bitter twist in the finish and a dry, chalky feeling. This is the most Burgundian of the whites here. They produced close to 50,000 bottles.