Algueira Carravel

Winery: Adega Algueira
Region: Ribeira Sacra

Red Wine

Variety: 100% Mencía

Production
Grapes from the best plots of Doade, fermenting separately each one of them and assembling after the aging. The Mencía 100% is made either in steel or in barrel, with or without scrap, depending mainly on the plot of origin. Its aging takes place in barrels of different volumes for more than 12 months.

Details
Soils: Slate
Orientation: South
Climate: Continental mediterranean

Elaboration
Fermentation in stainless steel tanks with 20% of raspón and without inoculation of yeasts. Malolactic in barrels and aging in French oak barrels for 24 months

Aging
24 months in French oak.

Tasting
It has garnet red color and middle layer, balsamic aromas and red fruit (wild strawberry). It emphasizes the roundness in mouth with a balance between alcohol-acidity-tannins.

The minerality of the area gives us a very long wine in the mouth.