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Nose / Aroma: | Seductive nose of red fruits, blue flowers. |
Mouth / Flavors: | Light and slender plot on the palate. |
Winemaker notes: | The idea of this wine is to combine the minerality and fruitiness, adding sandy soils and clay, keeping the friendly and cheerful character of the Mencia resulting in a wine of cutting informal, very fresh and agile. |
Kind of wine: | Red Wine Crianza |
Grape Varieties: | 100% Mencía |
Vintage: | 2022 |
Ageing: | 7 - 8 months, 50% in French oak barrels of 228L from second to fourth use, and 50% in 800L of terracotta amphora. |
Alcohol: | 12,90% vol |
Acidez: | 5,1 g/L |
Formats: | 0,75L |
Production: | 20.000 bottles |
Soils: | Clay-Sandy with boulders (quartzite, slate...) |
Grape harvest: | Manual |
Viticulture: | Old vines, more than 80 years. |
A long paths in some of the best wineries of the world endorse Verónica Ortega and his new project, develop unique wines in the Bierzo.
After working in DO Priorat with Daphne Glorian (Clos Erasmus) and Álvaro Palacios and spend a few years working in France, in Borgoña (in Domaine de la Romanee Conti and Comte Armand) and Valle del Ródano, Domaine Combier, she returned to Spain to create their own project, in the Bierzo.
She begins her firts experience in 2010, but it was in 2012 when she decided to make her own winery.
Its wines are made by hand, with spontaneous fermentation, and low levels of sulphur. Like vineyard, it is hand worked in Organic farming.
Location
Is located in the northeast of Spain, the Bierzo DO has an old wine tradition, and the very interesting meeting both by location with strong Atlantic influence, and the authenticity of their wines.
Grapes
The Queen of the varieties in Bierzo is Mencía, variety native found mixed in the vineyard old vine with a very small proportion of other local, both white and red varieties, from Alicante Bouchet, Merençao, Sherry or Doña Blanca.
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