2022 Raul Perez Ultreia La Claudina Godello, Bierzo, Spain Podere Grattamacco 91 Pts John Gilman

91 Pts John Gilman

A wine to be drunk at all times

nervy acidity

Aged in wood

increasingly precise in recent vintages

2022 Raul Perez Ultreia La Claudina Godello, Bierzo, Spain Podere Grattamacco 91 Pts John GilmanFrom the village where the Prez family has farmed for more than three centuries, La Claudina is Ral Prez at his most quietly radical a single sandy parcel of old vine Godello in Valtuille de Abajo, fermented spontaneously in one old foudre and left to grow a veil of flor through the spring, exactly as fine Sherry or Jura whites do. The result is Godello reimagined: biscuit, wafer, and white flower laced with raw almond and a saline mineral pulse,