
Bodegas Avancia
Avancia Cuvée de O Mencía
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Description :
Vinification: Hand-harvested and stored in small baskets. Primary fermentation takes place in small (two to five ton) open top stainless-steel fermenters with indigenous yeast. Slow vertical basket press followed by malolactic fermentation in used French oak Bordeaux and Burgundy barrels.
Aging: Eight months sur lie in used Bordeaux and Burgundy barrels with battonage.Grape varieties :
100% Mencia
Soil :
Primarily slate soils intermixed with small quantities of quartz.
Tasting notes :
Cuvée de O Mencía represents the minerality and authentic, clean, varietal expression of the Mencía variety from Valdeorras. Medium-bodied, lots of ripe fruit, pristine on the palate.
Press Notes
- James Suckling
- 202190 points
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