Five-generation family bodega at Villadecanes led by Misericordia Bello, working 18 hectares with vines over 70 years old and bottling the Canes and Viñadecanes ranges.
Address: Calle San Pedro 96, 24530 Villadecanes, Toral de los Vados, León, Spain, Bierzo
The Bierzo estate of the Galician Terras Gauda group, based at San Miguel de Arganza and built on old-vine Mencía from the Arganza slopes.
Tasting: Guided winery visit with a tasting and aperitivo, about 90 minutes, bookable year round.
Signature wines: pittacum-aurea, petit-pittacum, petit-pittacum-rosado
Started in 2006 and working old vines in Villafranca del Bierzo and Valtuille de Abajo, vinifying the Villegas, Fuente de San Lázaro, Monte Cotelo and Cabarcos sites apart.
Tasting: Personalised guided visits arranged through the producer's visit page.
Signature wines: demencia, demencia-villegas, demencia-fuente-san-lazaro, pyjama-godello, pyjama-mencia
Three-partner project at Almázcara in the eastern Bierzo whose name joins the initials of Manuel Benito, Javier Álvarez and Raúl García, built on small Mencía lots.
Signature wines: almazcara-majara, cobija-del-pobre-godello, aphrodisiaque-mencia, amphora-de-cobija-del-pobre, aphrodisiaque-rose
Founded at Corullón in 1999 by Álvaro Palacios and his nephew Ricardo Pérez Palacios, working Mencía across more than 200 small slate parcels under biodynamic farming.
Signature wines: petalos-del-bierzo, villa-de-corullon, las-lamas, moncerbal, la-faraona
Pérez family estate at Valtuille de Abajo bottling under its own name since 1991, farming 85 hectares of mostly 50-year-plus vines and releasing village and parcel bottlings.
Signature wines: valtuille-la-vitoriana, valtuille-el-rapolao, valtuille-la-cova-de-la-raposa, valtuille-villegas, valtuille-vino-de-villa
Family bodega whose first commercial vintage in 1999 ran to 10,000 bottles, now around 200,000, from 12 hectares of goblet vines aged between 45 and over 90 years in Valtuille.
Signature wines: peique-ramon-valle, peique-tinto-mencia
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