Timothy Eustis

Wine Director, Red Lion Inn

9.1

Heavy on nose. Green vegetables. Pretty on the palate. 2021 — 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

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

Jeremy Noye

CEO Morrell & Company

9.3

Bold and taunt. Big rips of acidity that gets meaty and olive in finish. Good balance and length. — 5 years ago

Daniel Oakley

10

Birthday drinks in Lisbon with Julia. Love it. — 6 years ago

Angelo Casagrande

8.9

Little soil- like funk in the nose. Raspberry,,good tannins and some cigar- box. I just had a nice cab franc and this reminds me of it. — 6 years ago

Bart

9.4

Lots of cherries on the nose. Some hints of spicy smoke. Light and very elegant, with intense cherry/red candy flavors. Fine gentle tannins. This is good stuff. — 7 years ago

Jhon Zarate

9.4

Worldwide somm wine! — 9 years ago

Alex Stangle

9.0

Great mencia. Lots of dark fruit, smooth and fresh — 10 years ago

Miguel de Leon

Service Director/Wine Educator Casa Mono

9.5

Everything is right on with this wine right now. Even fruit, a little funky; lots of #llicorella and control. — 11 years ago

with Casa

romo

9.1

Dinner with Raul Perez! — 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

Jaume Claramunt

9.2

Niepoort and Raúl Pérez: good wine — 5 years ago

Andre Barake

9.6

Elegant mencia, with deep berry, perfect acidity, plum, roses. Reminds me of top Burgundy! Kudos to Master Raul Perez👏👏 — 6 years ago

Emily Heyward

9.0

Thanks to @Ben Christen , my wine consultant! — 6 years ago

with Jessica

Gerardo Suro

9.0

Interesting wine. Kept changing and evolving in a good way. Started things off with a bit of menthol followed by blueberries, blackberries, currant and violets. Prieto Picudo’s the grape from Leon, Spain. Seek it and know it., if you can find it. You’ll be rewarded plenty by the masterful hand of Raul Perez. — 7 years ago

Marc vanholst

9.3

From the days where Raul Perez still made a 100% pinot noir. In the more recent years of this wine he always uses Mencia in a blend with Pinot. Only 526 bottles made and one of the very few Pinot Noirs from Spain. This is nice but is slightly sharper + has more acidity then Burgundy pinots. Nevertheless a great discovery. — 8 years ago

Felipe Ferreiro

Sommelier/Wine Director Restaurante Las Rias Bajas

9.0

Wine Experience Costa del Sol 2016 — 9 years ago

mark kreuzer

9.4

For me, this was a spectacular wine. Rich with layered flavors yet smooth like silk in the mouth — 11 years ago

romo

9.1

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

Evandro Pereira

9.3

Envelhecendo bem...parece um Gevrey jovem, com potência mas sem ser over. 2009 — 5 years ago

Jeremy Fisher

9.5

Wow. Super interesting. Nutty, flinty, savory, salty — 6 years ago

Mike R

9.4

Tune up a week on Wednesday afternoon in Iowa for WNH

Love this wine and Spanish winemaker Raul Perez — 6 years ago

with David, Joe and 2 others

Kent Tisdale

9.1

Bright acidity off the top leading to oxidized flavor of salinity. Great with cured meats for sure — 7 years ago

Benjamin Hickey

8.9

Soft, easy drinking, savoury. Bit muted. — 8 years ago

JKT

9.0

Gordon's Spanish tasting 9/21/16. Floral nose with minerals. Palate balanced and with minerals. Finished long. Bit like northern Rhone syrah. — 9 years ago

Santi

9.0

Me encanta este vino, sincero, puro mencía y a buen precio. Bodega de Raúl Pérez, no hay más que decir. — 11 years ago