Ribas del Cúa ★ 4.1

Losada Vinos de Finca ★ 4.6

Founded in 2005 on the Villafranca road out of Cacabelos, working 12 hectares of small plots in Pieros and Valtuille with Amancio Fernández making the wines since the start.

Tasting: Cellar open Monday to Friday, 09:00 to 14:00 and 15:00 to 18:00.

Signature wines: losada, altos-de-losada, la-bienquerida, la-senda-del-diablo, el-cepon, la-chana

Losada Vinos de Finca ★ 4.6

Founded in 2005 on the Villafranca road out of Cacabelos, working 12 hectares of small plots in Pieros and Valtuille with Amancio Fernández making the wines since the start.

Tasting: Cellar open Monday to Friday, 09:00 to 14:00 and 15:00 to 18:00.

Signature wines: losada, altos-de-losada, la-bienquerida, la-senda-del-diablo, el-cepon, la-chana

Vinos Valtuille ★ 4.5

Founded by Dimas García in 1999 on a family holding worked since 1910, now run by his children across 16 hectares of Mencía in about 90 clay-slope plots.

Tasting: Wine tourism experiences arranged by telephone or email through the bodega.

Signature wines: cabanelas, el-rapolao, valtuille-de-abajo-vino-de-villa, pago-de-valdoneje-godello-la-cerrada, pago-de-valdoneje-mencia

Vinos LOF ★ 4.3

Grower project named for the López and Folgueral families, working Valtuille de Abajo and Villalibre de la Jurisdicción with Mencía plus Merenzao and Estaladiña.

Tasting: The bodega invites visitors to see its vines and cellar, arranged through the contact page.

Signature wines: vilof-roble, la-fontina-de-nai, angelita-de-valtuille, la-jurisdiccion, matalospardos

Estévez Bodegas y Viñedos ★ 4.2

Helios Estévez's cellar on Calle Las Flores in Valtuille de Abajo, bottling the Versos de Valtuille range alongside named parcels such as El Rapolao, Pal de la Vega and Mata los Pardos.

Tasting: Enoturismo visits offered through the bodega's own booking section.

Signature wines: estevez-el-rapolao, pal-de-la-vega, mata-los-pardos, versos-de-valtuille-godello, versos-de-valtuille-rosado

Bodegas Adriá ★ 4.1

Family house on the Fuentesnuevas to Villafranca road, bottling Godello and Mencía across the Silk and Velvet tiers plus an orange-style Godello.

Tasting: Visits arranged through the bodega's own booking section and telephone line.

Signature wines: adria-godello, adria-mencia, adria-silk, adria-velvet, adria-godello-orange

Bodega Verónica Ortega ★ 4.7

Cádiz-trained Verónica Ortega made her first Bierzo vintage in 2010 while still working in France, settled in the comarca in 2012 and works older plots from a cellar at Carracedelo.