{"title":"Mencía","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"mengoba-bierzo-brezo-mencia-2023","title":"Mengoba Bierzo Brezo Mencía 2023","description":"\u003cp\u003eMengoba Bierzo Brezo Mencía is a vibrant and expressive wine made from the Mencía grape, with additions of Garnacha Tintorera (Alicante Bouschet) and Godello. This wine hails from the Bierzo region of Spain, where Mencía is the dominant variety. Known for its red fruit flavors, floral aromas, and spice, Mencía thrives on the slate-rich hillsides of Valtuille and Villafranca del Bierzo. This vintage boasts a radiant ruby red colour and a full-bodied, complex profile. On the nose, it delivers aromas of ripe red berries, cedar, and spices, while the palate is marked by black cherry, plum, and a touch of oak. The wine is balanced with smooth, elegant tannins and a long, satisfying finish.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGregorio Pérez’s entry-level Mencía is crafted with fruit from 30- to 60-year-old vines, fermented spontaneously in stainless-steel tanks. It was bottled early to capture the refreshing, juicy character of Mencía. This wine offers a great balance of fleshy fruit and fresh structure, making it a fantastic alternative for those who enjoy wines like Cru Beaujolais or Loire Cabernet Franc. A true expression of Bierzo, this wine is approachable, fun, and reflective of its unique terroir.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. If you are after a specific vintage, please contact us prior to ordering.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DiVino.com.au","offers":[{"title":"Mencía \/ Garnacha Tintorera \/ Godello \/ Bierzo \/ Bodega Mengoba","offer_id":42377844031547,"sku":"25022-750","price":34.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0823\/1483\/files\/Mengoba_Bierzo_Brezo_Mencia_42fe2682-fd53-4c3e-b9f9-9a816fa6aed0.png?v=1754709429"},{"product_id":"quinta-da-muradella-monterrei-alanda-tinto-2018","title":"Quinta da Muradella Monterrei Alanda Tinto 2018","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlanda Tinto is Quinta da Muradella's core Monterrei red, a co-fermented blend of local varieties from a mosaic of high-altitude plots.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMonterrei sits in south-eastern Galicia against the Portuguese border, and its patchwork of slate, granite and clay soils is very much the point of this wine. Jose Luis Mateo farms organically across a spread of small, high vineyards, and Alanda Tinto works as a portrait of that landscape: Mencia with Bastardo, the variety known elsewhere as Merenzao or Trousseau, plus Garnacha Tintorera and a small proportion of the white Dona Blanca. About a third of the fruit is destemmed and everything is co-fermented together. The wine then spends 15 months in used oak barrels and a further six months in vat before bottling, an ageing regime aimed at texture rather than oak flavour. Shown blind, earlier releases have been read as premier cru Burgundy, which speaks to the perfume and the lacy tannins rather than to any resemblance in variety.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrinking well now, with the balance for medium-term cellaring. Serve at 16-18°C with roast duck, mushroom risotto or grilled lamb.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. If you are after a specific vintage, please contact us prior to ordering.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DiVino.com.au","offers":[{"title":"Mencía \/ Trousseau \/ Garnacha Tintorera \/ Doña Blanca \/ Galicia \/ Quinta da Muradella","offer_id":44038248136763,"sku":"24030-750","price":94.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0823\/1483\/files\/quinta-da-muradella-monterrei-alanda-tinto-2018.png?v=1787584530"},{"product_id":"mengoba-mencia-alicante-bouschet-2020","title":"Mengoba Mencía Alicante Bouschet 2020","description":"\u003cp\u003eMengoba Mencía Alicante Bouschet is a Bierzo red drawn from old field-blend plantings, white grapes included.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBierzo sits in a sheltered bowl in the north-west of Castilla y León, on the road to Galicia, and its old vineyards are typically small, hand-worked and mixed. Grégory Pérez, a Bordeaux-trained winemaker who settled here, works a number of these parcels. This bottling blends Mencía with Alicante Bouschet and a proportion of the white varieties that grow among the vines in his old plots, an arrangement he keeps rather than sorts out. The Mencía comes from the slate-rich Espanillo vineyard at 700 metres, where the average vine age is around 80 years. The fruit is fermented with wild yeasts, with about 20% whole bunches, in 5,000-litre oak vats and then matured for sixteen months before bottling, so the oak acts as a container rather than a flavour.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrinkable now and good for five or six years, it suits grilled meats, chorizo and roast peppers, or a plate of cured ham. Serve at 16–18°C.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. If you are after a specific vintage, please contact us prior to ordering.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DiVino.com.au","offers":[{"title":"Mencía \/ Alicante Bouschet \/ Castilla y León \/ Bodegas Mengoba","offer_id":44038299222075,"sku":"22284-750","price":59.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0823\/1483\/files\/mengoba-mencia-alicante-bouschet-2020.png?v=1787584453"},{"product_id":"quinta-da-muradella-monterrei-gorvia-tinto-2016","title":"Quinta da Muradella Monterrei Gorvia Tinto 2016","description":"\u003cp\u003eQuinta da Muradella Monterrei Gorvia Tinto is a single-vineyard field blend of around 95 per cent Mencía from the far west of Spain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMonterrei sits in the south-east of Galicia against the Portuguese border, a warmer, more continental pocket than the Atlantic zones to the west, and José Luis Mateo is the grower who did most to establish its reputation. Gorvia is a singular site, and the red comes from the same vineyard as the Gorvia Blanco: alongside the dominant Mencía there are small amounts of Bastardo and Caíño Redondo interplanted in the old fashion. Fermentation was carried out with 60 per cent whole bunches in a wooden vat, followed by an extended post-fermentation maceration, after which the wine was racked into a range of old casks, none of them new. The balance is the point here — power held against lightness and restraint, with field strawberry and sweet cherry, generous texture hemmed in by silky tannins, and lively acidity carrying a long mineral finish.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrinking well now and worth another five to ten years in bottle. Serve at 16°C with roast lamb, grilled octopus or a plate of jamón and aged sheep's cheese.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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Mann uses 100 per cent whole bunches here, chasing the depth, structure, heightened spice and what he describes as an almost curry-leaf reduction that comes with them. Ten days on skins, then 11 months in an old 300-litre French hogshead. His affection for the granite-grown reds of north-west Spain is no secret.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePerfumed and juicy: berry fruit, summer flowers, brown spice, then a fleshy palate with cranberry acid and chalky tannin running to a long mineral finish. Serve at 15 to 16 degrees with roast pork, grilled octopus or a chorizo and potato stew.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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