Mencía - Alicante Bouschet, Mengoba - 2021

Name: Mencía - Alicante Bouschet, Mengoba
Brand: Mengoba
SKU: 51152
Price: 29.96 USD
Availability: InStock

Item # 51152 750 mL

A robust red wine. Winemaker, Gregory Perez, has acquired some prime, old-vine plots that had been abandoned, and is making some incredible Spanish red wines worthy of your attention. Hand-harvested fruit was partially destemmed before fermentation. Aged in old foudre barrels before bottling.

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Color

Red

Vintage

2021

Country

Spain

Region

Ribeira Sacra

Producer

Mengoba

Grape Variety

Mencía

Alicante Bouchet

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Spain

Central to the Spanish winemaking philosophy is the belief that wine should be released only when it is ready to be consumed, and not a moment before. Spanish wine law focuses squarely on this issue: the terms Crianza, Reserva and Gran Reserva are highly regulated indicators of the amount of time a wine has aged prior to its release. In Rioja, Navarra, and the Ribera del Duero (which have the most stringent requirements) red Crianzas must be aged a minimum of two years; Reservas, at least three...

Ribeira Sacra

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