Pago de Valdoneje Vinas Viejas 2017 Red Wine

Elaboration

There are old vines — and then there are 100-year-old Mencía vines in the slate soils of Bierzo, whose roots have spent a century finding the mineral depth, structural complexity and aromatic intensity that younger vineyards spend decades trying to achieve and never quite reach. Vinos Valtuille was founded in 1999 by Dimas García Canedo in Valtuille de Abajo, with the conviction that great wine begins in the vineyard and that the land deserves the same respect that every generation of his family has always given it. His children Elena and Marcos now work alongside him, extending the values of effort, care and terroir fidelity that define every wine in the range. The Viñas Viejas is their most serious and most acclaimed expression: 100-year-old Mencía from Bierzo's ancient soils, aged 11 months in fresh French oak to build the integrated complexity and depth that earned it the title of Best Spanish Wine — and that seven years of bottle development have now confirmed as completely and definitively deserved.