Valdesil Mencía Valderroa 2017

Highly respected for their Godello holdings, which include the legendary Pedrouzos vineyard planted in 1885, Valdesil also make a little Mencía which is terrific quality. The fruit for this wine comes from old bush vines planted on the south-facing, slate-rich slopes around the village of O Moullón (in the mountainous eastern limits of Valdeorras). The rocky soils, high altitude and cold Atlantic weather patterns help sculpt a lifted, racy, tangy and red-cherry-scented Galician red with stunning spice and drive. Medium bodied and all class, this might be the best example of this wine we have shipped.