"News travels fast, even when it is bad, but fortunately, in this case, it was good, or rather very good. But perhaps, to understand everything, we need to go back a few years, to the Bierzo region (Spain), where Raul Perez, the winemaker now considered one of the best in the world, began to distinguish himself with his first wines. The years passed and Raul's fame grew at the same pace as the quality and number of wines that were born with his signature. With a strong connection to the land, his wines are truly tempting, captivating and consumers rush to get them before they run out. Names like Ultreia, El Pecado, Rara Avis, Sketch, La Claudina, among others, resonate around the world, and then the scores do the rest. Now, the news I read is that Raul Perez himself is in Trás os Montes, in his quest to be different and to work with local and so often forgotten grapes. Well, Raul Perez's name is somehow associated with this wine that I place here under the name Romano Cunha. For those who are used to Raul's classics, they can immediately find similarities between this label and the others.
But we don't just stop at the label, I'm happy to say, the best lives on the inside. Consistent and with a lot of life, at the same time elegant and demanding of time, not of glass but of bottle.
The wines of Mário Romano Cunha (Mirandela) are wines with a will of their own, where you can say as they say on the other side of the border, with well placed tannins. These are wines where time is the master, so it is not surprising that after the 2009 harvest, the 2008 was released and only now the 2010. A red wine that evokes varieties such as Tinta Amarela, Tinta Roriz and Touriga Nacional that has aged in wood for some time. When I look at these Romano Cunha, I can not help but think of the Ultreia (Bierzo) also created by Raúl Pérez. "
From the blog Copo de 3
Written by João de Carvalho