La Senda

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Wine Box of 6 bottles of red wine, from a single label

1984 2017, Mencia

Bottles produced: 7000Spontaneous fermentationwith indigenous yeasts in trunkconical open in contact with thepeels for approximately three days.The refinement takes place in French oak barriquessecond passage until thefollowing spring. Afterbottling, the wine restsfor a month in the cellar

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Ponferrada (Spain)

We are in the Bierzo region. This is the last area to the North-West of Castilla y Leon before Galicia, land of difficult grapeslike the Mencia. The climate is harsh with a large Atlantic influence, the winters are very cold, with frosts always lurking, and the summers are short and humid. . The ideal mix to express the typicality of the local grapes,Mencia and Alicante Bouchet.

Diego, after having worked for conventional wineries, in 2012 decided to recover 13 parcels, 5 hectares ofvineyard, divided into 3 different municipalities. From the beginning the objective was tomake straight and fresh wines and therefore the intervention in the vineyard and in the cellaris reduced to a minimum . Short macerations, with whole berries, noclarification or filtration