Rectoral de Amandi Mencia 2020 Red Wine

Elaboration

Ribeira Sacra is one of Spain's most dramatic wine regions — steep slate terraces above the Sil and Miño rivers in Galicia, where heroic viticulture and the Atlantic-influenced climate give Mencía a freshness, mineral precision and aromatic complexity that the variety produces nowhere else with quite the same authority. Bodegas Rectoral de Amandi takes its name from a 17th-century rectory in the heart of Amandi — a winery that has grown into the largest producer in the D.O. with over two million bottles per year and a global reputation for bringing Ribeira Sacra to wine lovers in every corner of the world who had never previously heard of it. The Mencía is their most celebrated expression: native yeast fermentation and extended skin maceration to extract the full depth of raspberry, blackberry and licorice character that the variety gives when it is grown on Ribeira Sacra's ancient slate soils and handled with complete conviction. Ninety-six points from Decanter. Gold from the Berliner Wein Trophy. Ninety points from Guía Peñín. Three of the world's most authoritative voices in complete agreement.