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Avancia Cuvée de O Mencía

    • 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
    • 2021
      90 points
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