Garnacha Tintorera/Mencia 2022 Manuel Moldes 'Lentura'
Type of Wine: Red
Grape(s): 60% Garnacha Tintorera, 40% Mencia
Style: Mineral, Rustic, Medium B...
Type of Wine: Red
Grape(s): 60% Garnacha Tintorera, 40% Mencia
Style: Mineral, Rustic, Medium Body
This bottling is a blend of 60% Garnacha Tintorera (also know as Alicante Bouschet, a red-skinned, red-fleshed grape) and 40% Mencia, grown at high altitude on slate soils with an average vine age of 70 years. The wine is fermented with 20% whole-cluster in a combination of steel and wood vessels and aged 300-liter barrels for 11 months before being bottled unfined and unfiltered.
CELLAR NOTES
20% whole cluster, 5-7-day natural ferment in steel with 2 pump overs per day. Aged in 50/ 50 in steel and old 300l French oak. First sulfites added at pressing. Unfined and unfiltered.
Manuel "Chico" Moldes (above) is embracing the challenges of Galicia's climate to make wines full of tension and excitement. They are some of the best Spanish wines we've come across this year, right up there with Envínate.
