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Virgen del Galir Maruxa Mencía 2023.
Product Code:
18437005366517
Country:
Spain Valdeorras D.O., Galicia.
Grape Varieties:
100% Mencia.
Case Size:
6 x 75cl
Ratings:
90 Points The Wine Advocate.
£80.35
The village red 2023 Maruxa Mencía is from slate and schist soils in the village of Éntoma. They picked the reds after September 18, as they had some rains that made the cycle longer. The wine has higher alcohol at 13% and a very low pH (3.3). It fermented in stainless steel with one-third full clusters and the rest uncrushed and was kept in tank until bottling. It's primary, balsamic and juicy, with a touch of earthiness but with a finer texture. 30,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in May 2024.
Purchased by CVNE from Rioja, this property in Valdeorras has constantly been expanded and refurbished and the wines fine-tuned. They recovered some old plots in the zone of As Ermitas with Merenzao (Trousseau) and Brancellao grapes; the winery was extended, and they introduced ceramic and concrete vessels and 1,200- and 4,000-liter oak vats. Total production is 117,000 bottles—72,000 of white and 45,000 of red. Most of the wines tasted were from 2023, with one each from 2022 and 2021. 2023 was the earliest harvest in Valdeorras, starting in August after a rainy spring and a warm and dry summer. Alcohol levels were higher, but the pH and acidity was better because yields were 15% lower than in 2022. They consider 2023 a very good vintage for them there.
Luis Gutiérrez, The Wine Advocate, Jul 11, 2024.
The village red 2023 Maruxa Mencía is from slate and schist soils in the village of Éntoma. They picked the reds after September 18, as they had some rains that made the cycle longer. The wine has higher alcohol at 13% and a very low pH (3.3). It fermented in stainless steel with one-third full clusters and the rest uncrushed and was kept in tank until bottling. It's primary, balsamic and juicy, with a touch of earthiness but with a finer texture. 30,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in May 2024.
Purchased by CVNE from Rioja, this property in Valdeorras has constantly been expanded and refurbished and the wines fine-tuned. They recovered some old plots in the zone of As Ermitas with Merenzao (Trousseau) and Brancellao grapes; the winery was extended, and they introduced ceramic and concrete vessels and 1,200- and 4,000-liter oak vats. Total production is 117,000 bottles—72,000 of white and 45,000 of red. Most of the wines tasted were from 2023, with one each from 2022 and 2021. 2023 was the earliest harvest in Valdeorras, starting in August after a rainy spring and a warm and dry summer. Alcohol levels were higher, but the pH and acidity was better because yields were 15% lower than in 2022. They consider 2023 a very good vintage for them there.
Luis Gutiérrez, The Wine Advocate, Jul 11, 2024.
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