Maggie Harrison

9.3

ancient pre phylloxera vines. totally corny but I smell white flowers, peach, mango mashed on stone. pithy finish. delicious — 5 months ago

Steve Mitchell

9.1

Decanted for 1 hour and it tight and complex. Mellowed out after we paired with our meal. — 6 months ago

romo

9.3

Relaxing in its balance and concentration. Co-red-WotN. — 9 months ago

Timothy Eustis

Wine Director, Red Lion Inn

9.1

Heavy on nose. Green vegetables. Pretty on the palate. 2021 — 2 years ago

Joe Weinberger

9.3

I’ve had a few wines from Raul Perez but this is the first to truly blow me away. Incredibly fresh but also quite structured to hold up all the fruit. Wonderful. — 3 years ago

Michael Meyer

9.4

Señor Perez has *never* disappointed me. This is Puligny meets Grosses Gewachs. Fantastic minerality and round fruit, but bone dry. Superb with Branzino. — 5 years ago

Michael Meyer

9.3

@Delectable Wine this is the Rapolao cuvée. Have we been calling Perez a rock star for too many years now? Let’s just settle on “master”. This wine is refined, aromatic, balanced, and beautiful. And the other “crus” are even better. Forward! — 5 years ago

Maggie Harrison

9.3

2019 enjoyed June 2025 — 5 months ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.3

For a Priorat wine which I generally don’t care for this was elegant, deep and pure. Very fresh. — 6 months ago

Dale Garrison

9.2

Delicious. Very hearty without too much tanin. Just a nicely balanced. — 2 years ago

romo

9.1

Dinner with Raul Perez! — 2 years ago

Andrew Schirmer

9.4

Soft tannins, smoky, ripe blackberry, red meat, medium acid & tannin. Lovely work. 😍 — 3 years ago

with Alsu

Mark Freund

9.2

Nose initially reticent, some reductive notes, peach and apricot in the background. Fresh, green apple, balanced acidity. Delightful wine that should benefit from a couple years of bottle age — 5 years ago

with Erin

Brian Hearty

9.1

2023. Strawberries and watermelon flavors. We’ve enjoyed this wine before and it was great with chicken swarma and a citrusy watermelon and feta salad. — 5 months ago

Megan Fenlon

9.0

Mid range Raul Perez, I actually found this more pleasing than the higher range — 8 months ago

romo

9.1

Simpler, yet still very-Perez. — 9 months ago

romo

9.1

Bring me the head of Raul Perez! 😍 — 2 years ago

romo

9.1

This is the Prieto Picudo red. Pls update @Delectable — 2 years ago

M. Christopher Roebuck

9.3

Deep rich purple in color. Mustiness on open that blew off over 20 minutes. Earth, grilled meat, with a layer of stewed strawberry vanilla on top, the remaining wood component will continue to convert to tertiary flavors with additional age. Dry with medium acidity, medium plus alcohol, medium plus tannins, with a lengthy finish with a lingering chalky white pepper. This wine is excellent and will improve.

This was my 2nd bottle and review of this wine. The notes are fairly consistent but the mustiness was not present in the first. Interesting.

93 points — 5 years ago

Jaume Claramunt

9.2

Niepoort and Raúl Pérez: good wine — 5 years ago