Algueira Pizarra

Winery: Adega Algueira
Region: Ribeira Sacra

Red Wine

Variety: 100% Mencía

Production
The grapes come exclusively from our Carballocobo property, which gives us a constant production, with the peculiarities of the vintage. The whole clusters without destemming are crushed with our feet in trunks of French oak, subjecting them to a pre-fermentative cold maceration before fermenting with an exhaustive temperature control. After a long post-fermentative maceration of more than 30 days, the wine sleeps in French oak barrels and foudres between 12-18 months.

Details
Soils: Slate
Orientation: South

Elaboration
Grape entirely foot pressed, in French oak barrels of 2,000 and 5,000L

Aging 
Alternate in barrels for 14 months and maturation on deposit

Tasting
Already in the glass it shows an intense cherry red color, medium-high layer, with a very intense nose and the complexity of the interesting red fruit, the balsamic of the terroir (green coffee and chocolates) and the minerality that gives its name to the wine.

The attack on the palate is fresh and its pace is intense, structured, with a crunchy, complex and warm tannins.

With long postguards and a retronasal that evokes the mineral character of the plot and its elaboration with scratch.