A sommelier and an environmental agent farm old vines at Hornixa above Corullón and at Rimor outside Ponferrada, and receive visitors in person.
Tip: This is a visitable vineyard rather than a conventional bodega. Contact the growers directly before driving up to Rimor.
Address: Calle Cantarín 3, 24448 Rimor, Ponferrada, León, Spain, Bierzo
A small Molinaseca cellar bottling Vino de Villa Ponferrada from unirrigated eighty-year-old parcels, sold in the region's organic two-bottle case.
Tip: Vino de Villa Ponferrada is a rare label to find. Encima is the easiest place to taste what the municipality's own fruit gives.
A Villafranca house working only Mencía from vines it puts at over 130 years, and bottling across village, paraje and parcel tiers.
Tip: El Cepón is bottled as a Vino de Paraje and Los Fornos as a Vino de Parcela. Taste them beside AO Villa de Otero to see the pyramid in one flight.
Numbered single-parcel wines from two family vineyards above Villafranca, restarted in 2015 with 900 bottles of Garnacha Tintorera.
Tip: The numbered bottlings are single parcels, so ask which number came off which slope. Volumes are small enough that not all eight are in stock.
A Valtuille de Abajo family cellar rebuilt in 1994 inside its own Viña Ramiro, an early adopter of trellised Mencía and of controlled Ganimede fermentation.
Tip: Valtuille de Abajo packs a dozen bodega doors into two streets. Cobertizo sits out among the vines rather than in the village core.
A small Molinaseca cellar bottling Vino de Villa Ponferrada from unirrigated eighty-year-old parcels, sold in the region's organic two-bottle case.
Tip: Vino de Villa Ponferrada is a rare label to find. Encima is the easiest place to taste what the municipality's own fruit gives.
A Boeza-valley estate at Albares de la Ribera working named parcels since 1913, back inside DO Bierzo only since the 2019 revision of the Pliego.
Tip: This is the far eastern edge of the DO, half an hour from Ponferrada. Pair it with Dominio de Tares to see the Bierzo Alto in a morning.
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