Bierzo Xestal

Red wine Crianza 2004. PDO Bierzo. 100% Mencía.Rated with 93 points by The Wine Advocate (Robert M. Parker, Jr.) and 91 points per Peñín.

It is a wine reflects the best qualities of Mencia. Prepared by the winegrower Ginés Fernández Quiles in their vineyards in northern municipality Cacabelos, Bierzo winemaking center. This is a family winery, based on agriculture with only 13 hectares distributed over 60 small parcels which are a kind of horseshoe around the winery and planted with vines in traditional glass dating from the mid-twentieth century ( strains of up to 100 years).

Their vineyards transmit knowledge and culture more ancient: Pliny the Elder and Strabo, 2000 years ago, and made reference to Berciano vineyard in his writings. Their tillage craft from the pruning to the harvest, the soil texture mostly French, with its high content of quartz, the pH from 4.8 to 6.2 and the level of organic matter less than 1.2 provide great wines quality, elegant, rich and above all different.

Wineries Gancedo not artificially stabilized cold, clarified with egg albumin and used French oak barrels.

Xestal Mencia is an author of parenting intense cherry color. Nosed gourmet, fine roasted aroma, creamy, ripe fruit, violet and black plum jam. Tasty powerful, structured, fleshy, fine tannins, ripe, balsamic, ripe fruit but with the expression of Mencia very fresh, with a persistent, long, character, fresh, balanced and original. It joins superbly with Iberian, hunting ...

Presentation: Bottle of Bordeaux with a label of DOP Bierzo

Voumen net unit: 750 cc

Alcohol: 14 º

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 08 September, 2008.

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