Dry · Funky · Savoury
Cuvées
Altos de Losada
4.6
Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · High acidity · Contemplative · Bold
Elegant, fragrant and complex: black fruit, plum and blackberry with floral touches and waxy ageing notes, sweet spiced wood, liquorice, leather and coconut water.
Dry · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · Medium acidity · Elegant · Savoury
Pale yellow with golden reflections and a notably complex nose: fresh apple and pear, grapefruit, caramel, bakery and herbal fennel, opening to acacia blossom.
Bembibre
4.6
Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · High acidity · Bold · Contemplative
Deep ruby with a complex nose of ripe black fruit, balsamic notes, fine spice and graphite; broad, silky and enveloping with polished tannin and a long, fresh close.
Dry · Full-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Elegant · Contemplative
Golden with green flashes and a complex, enveloping nose of ripe tropical and stone fruit with white flowers, bakery notes and sweet spice; intense and unctuous.
Carracedo Mencía
4.6
Dry · Medium-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Elegant · Savoury
A floral lavender lift over the wet slate and peat signature of the Bierzo, with fine spice, blackberry, strawberry and plum, vibrant and long.
Dry · Full-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Elegant · Savoury
Broad and deep, with white flowers, citrus rind and fresh apple giving way to nuts and bakery notes, and a creamy, saline finish.
Dry · Full-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Elegant · Savoury
Yellow with greenish tints, clean and bright, intense on the nose with terpenic ripe fruit over a base of white flowers, round and full in the mouth.
Dry · Medium-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Elegant · Refreshing
Expressive and perfumed at a moderate 13 per cent, drawn largely from sandy soils that give a finer, lighter-framed Valtuille red.
El Rapolao
4.5
Dry · Savoury · Contemplative
Dry · Medium-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Fruity · Elegant
Raspberry hued, with rose petal and fresh herbs, an unctuous and generous palate perfumed by strawberry and cherry, and tannins that melt away.
Dry · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Festive · Refreshing
Straw yellow, fresh and complex, with white flowers and citrus wrapped in bakery and nut aromas from the lees, a fine bead and a persistent close.
Godelia Mencía
4.4
Dry · Medium-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Savoury · Elegant
Concentrated red fruit with violets and mineral notes woven into the oak; fresh, fleshy and elegant with a good run across the palate.
Dry · Full-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Contemplative · Elegant
Straw yellow, with white flowers, pear, stone fruit, honey and vanilla, then a mineral, dense and deep palate carried by high acidity.
Hombros
4.6
Dry · Medium-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Elegant · Savoury
Highly aromatic, with wild blackberry, blueberry and delicate summer flowers, then ripe tannin, lively acidity and a harmonious, notably long finish.
Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · High acidity · Bold · Savoury
Cherry red with garnet rims, of medium to high intensity, showing candied forest fruits and vanilla tones over a complex, powerful structure.
Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · Medium acidity · Bold · Rustic
Dark, bright and deep in colour and unmistakably varietal, with impressive fruit expression, fully ripe tannins and a long, earthy, elegant close.
Libamus
4.4
Sweet · Full-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Contemplative · Fruity
A naturally sweet Mencía from grapes left to overripen on the vine: red fruit over a mineral base, sweet and concentrated but fresh, with a velvety finish.
Martín Sarmiento
4.5
Dry · Bold · Contemplative
Dry · Savoury · Rustic
Dry · Savoury · Elegant
Oncedo Mencía
4.4
Dry · Medium-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Savoury · Elegant
Intense and fresh, with the personal aromas of Mencía: broom flower and cassis alongside coconut and vanilla from the oak, over a well structured palate.
Pittacum Aurea
4.4
Dry · Bold · Contemplative
Pyjama Godello
4.4
Dry · Full-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Savoury · Elegant
Dry and serious, combining the richness and structure of Godello with the freshness and acidity of the vintage, with great depth and a round but vibrant close.
Pyjama Mencía
4.4
Dry · Elegant · Savoury
Dry · Medium-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Savoury · Elegant
Atlantic-leaning Mencía with acidulous fruit, a graphite and humus core and a balsamic edge that builds in the glass.
Ribas del Cúa
4.2
Dry · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Fruity · Easygoing
Cherry red with violet tones and great aromatic intensity: raspberry, cassis and redcurrant beside blackberry and cherry, with tropical banana and pineapple over Mencía's green edge.
Ucedo
4.6
Dry · Full-bodied · High tannin · High acidity · Bold · Contemplative
Intense cherry in colour and powerful on the nose, with slate, wild black fruit, spice and liquorice, then a dense, almost chewable palate of black cherry preserve.
Valdepiñeiro
4.6
Dry · Full-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Elegant · Refreshing
Faint radiant gold, with mandarin peel and grapefruit against white flowers and intense but elegant minerality, then vibrant freshness turning unctuous.
Dry · Rustic · Savoury
Dry · Elegant · Refreshing
Dry · Elegant · Savoury
Dry · Medium-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Elegant · Savoury
Elegance and acid balance before power, with a fine mineral line and notes of myrtle and mountain scrub from vines between 700 and 900 metres.