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Avancia Cuvée de O Mencía

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Denominacion de Origen

D.O. Valdeorras

Location

Towns of O Barco and Villamartín de Valdeorras, in the Valley of Valdeorras, Province of Ourense, in the Northeast of the D.O.

Varietal

100% Mencia

Vineyards

Finca Julia – 1990 (Villamartín de Valdeorras) – grey slate intermixed with decomposed quartz; Finca As Chas – 1983 (Villamartín de Valdeorras) - grey slate intermixed with decomposed quartz; Finca El Sierro – 1978 (O Barco de Valdeorras) – alluvial soils

Year(s) Planted

1990, 1983, 1978

Viticulture

Traditional dry farmed viticulture. Organic Gobelet trained vines. Cultivated completely by hand.

Soils

Primarily slate soils intermixed with small quantities of quartz.

Climate

Mediterranean climate with an Atlantic influence. Very cold winters and very warm hot summers.

Winemaking

Hand-harvested and stored in small baskets. Primary fermentation takes place in small (two to five ton) open top stainless-steel fermenters with indigenous yeast. Slow vertical basket press followed by malolactic fermentation in used French oak Bordeaux and Burgundy barrels.

Aging

Eight months sur lie in used Bordeaux and Burgundy barrels with battonage.

Comments

Cuvée de O Mencía represents the minerality and authentic, clean, varietal expression of the Mencía variety from Valdeorras.