Bodegas Peique ★ 4.6

Bodegas Dominio de Tares ★ 4.7

Founded at San Román de Bembibre in 2000 and one of the projects that reframed Bierzo, fermenting both reds and whites with indigenous yeasts since the 2007 vintage.

Tasting: Cellar visits on weekdays, 09:00 to 18:00, by arrangement on the winery telephone or email.

Signature wines: baltos, cepas-viejas-mencia, bembibre, p3, cepas-viejas-godello, el-paisano-de-tares

Bodegas Estefanía ★ 4.6

The Tilenus house at Dehesas, built by the Frías family from 1999 in a converted dairy and bottling Mencía and Godello as separate parajes rather than as one blend.

Casar de Burbia ★ 4.6

Family bodega founded in 1989 by Nemesio Fernández Bruña, working 27 hectares split across 52 small mountain parcels and vinifying each one separately under organic farming.

Tasting: Cellar open Monday to Friday, 10:00 to 14:00 and 15:00 to 18:00.

Signature wines: nemesio, tebaida, tebaida-numero-5, el-castanal, hombros, valdepineiro

Bodegas y Viñedos Mengoba ★ 4.7

Bordeaux-trained Grégory Pérez works 12 hectares from a cellar at San Juan de Carracedo, with Espanillo parcels above 600 metres and Godello and Mencía plots at Arganza.

Signature wines: estaladina, la-grande-cuvee, el-rebolon, mencia-de-espanillo, mengoba-las-botas, mengoba-godello-viejo

Bodegas Gancedo ★ 4.4

Grower-run cellar at Quilós outside Cacabelos, bottling the Mencía labels Xestal and Ucedo alongside the Godello Herencia del Capricho.

Tasting: Winery experiences arranged on request through the estate telephone.

Signature wines: xestal, ucedo, herencia-del-capricho, capricho-godello, capricho-rosado

Bodegas y Viñedos Godelia ★ 4.4

Built in 2009 by the García Rodríguez family on the old N-VI at Pieros, drawing on about 50 hectares spread across several zones of the denomination.

Tasting: Enoturismo visits and tastings at the Pieros cellar, booked by telephone or email.

Signature wines: godelia-godello, godelia-mencia, godelia-seleccion-mencia, libamus, godelia-extra-brut-gran-reserva