Castro Ventosa Bierzo El Castro de Valtuille Joven Mencia 2011

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    Castro Ventosa Bierzo El Castro de Valtuille Joven Mencia 2011 Front Label
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    Vintage
    2011

    Size
    750ML

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    Castro Ventosa

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    Castro Ventosa, Spain
    Castro Ventosa was founded by the Perez family in 1752 and the family has owned the estate ever since. They own 75 hectares of Mencía vineyards in Bierzo making them the biggest owners of this varietal within the Bierzo D.O. Raúl Pérez, who runs the winery, is a ambasador for Bierzo wines in Spain. Mencía is indigenous to Bierzo and some suspect that it is an ancient clone from Cabernet Franc.

    At Castro Ventosa life gravitates around the land, the vineyard, the grape and the wine, which can only be created as a natural consequence of doing things right at every stage; the belief is that the wine is first made in the vineyard where the winery focuses most of its attention.

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    Primarily found in the Bierzo, Ribeira Sacra and Valdeorras regions of Spain and in the Dão of Portugal (where it is called Jaen), Mencia is an early ripening, low acid grape that can produce wines of great concentration, complexity and ageability. And yet Mencia once suffered from a poor reputation and deemed capable of producing simple and light red wines. Post-phylloxera growers would grow this variety on low, fertile plains, which produced high yields and uncomplicated finished wines. Somm Secret—The recent rediscovery of the ancient, abandoned vines planted on rugged hillsides of deep schist has unveiled the potential of Mencia and added discredit to its old reputation.

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    One of the few northwestern Spanish regions with a focus on a red variety, Bierzo, part of Castilla y León, is home to the flowery and fruity Mencia grape. Mencia produces balanced and bright red wines full of strawberry, raspberry, pomegranate, baking spice, pepper and black licorice. The well-drained soils of Bierzo are slate and granite.

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