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Bodegas Mengoba Brezo Mencia 2021

Bodegas Mengoba Brezo Mencia 2021

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Tasting Notes

Grégory Pérez admits that you've got to have a few loose screws to grow all your grapes in the highest and rockiest sites in Bierzo. Crazy he may be, but we thank him for his efforts! Pérez's entry level Mencía--which takes in a splash of Garnacha Tintorera (Alicante Bouschet) for brightness and crunch--comes from multiple parcels of 30-60 year old vines dotted around Valtuille and Villafranca del Bierzo. To produce something pure and juicy, Pérez de-stems 90% of the fruit, and ferments wild in stainless-steel vats. Fragrant and spicy, with good flesh yet powdery structure, this could be a top-notch Pinot! Expect loads of racy, black cherry, peppercorn, ripe strawberry and iodine and a long, perfumed and chalky close. Simply outstanding value. - Importer Note

Bierzo is a region that totally missed the industrialisation that so much of Europe went through post WW2. It was too difficult to mechanise and there was simply no interest in the area until a clutch of winemakers realised the remarkable potential of the high altitudes, old vines and quartz and slate rich soils. French winemaker Gregory Pérez was one of those drawn to the area by the sheer potential of the remarkable terroir as well as the two principal, indigenous grape varieties of Bierzo: Godello and Mencia. Pérez had already become very well known for his work at Bodegas Luna Beberide, where he started over a decade ago, before launching his own project, Mengoba with the 2007 vintage. Since then Mengoba - an acronym of "Men" from Mencia, "Go" from Godello and 'Ba " from Valenciana (the local patois for Doña Blanca) - has fast established itself as one of the region's benchmarks.Today, Pérez makes around 5000 cases of wonderful, high country-wines from a patchwork of vineyards in the hills of the Alto Bierzo. The vineyard work is absolutely artisanal; the vines are grown according to organic principles and Perez's highest plot remains one of the Spain's few quality producing vineyards still ploughed by cow. As the authors of The Finest Wines of Rioja and North West Spain (Jesús Barquín et al) point out; this is a "name to watch."

Product Type Wine Red Other Varietals & Blends
Volume 750ml
Country Spain
Region Bierzo
Winemaking Practices Conventional
Vineyard Practices Conventional