Pago de Valdetruchas Los Cerezales Mencia 2008

Mencia from Spain
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Pago de Valdetruchas Los Cerezales Mencia 2008 Front Label
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Vintage
2008

Size
750ML

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Los Cerezales' (trans. ‘The Cherries') is 100% Mencia from a single, 75 year-old vineyard planted at 750 meters above sea level (that's 2,460 feet for those keeping score at home). Grapes were hand-harvested and fermented with native yeasts in stainless steel tanks. After alcoholic fermentation, half of the wine underwent malo in tank while the other half underwent malo in new French oak. After malo, all of the wine was aged in French oak barrels for 11 months prior to bottling.

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    The 2008 Cerezales (the first release from this producer) is 100% Mencia sourced from a single 75-year-old vineyard and aged for 11 months in French oak. Purple-colored, it exhibits an alluring nose of cedar, tobacco, fresh herbs, mineral, violets, and black cherry. On the palate it is loaded with fruit and spice combined with excellent depth and length. It will evolve for 1-2 years but can be enjoyed now through 2018.
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Pago de Valdetruchas, Spain
Bierzo is one of the newest D.O.’s in Spain, having been recognized in 1988. It is located in the northwest of Spain. Pago de Valdetruchas is a joint project between Alejandro Luna and his uncle and cousin. The estate-owned vineyards are located in the town of Villafranca de Bierzo, about halfway between the cities of León and Santiago de Compostela. The vines grow on soils composed of calcareous clay, sand and slate, and are situated between 500 and 800 meters above sea level.
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Spanish red wine is known for being bold, heady, rustic and age-worthy, Spain is truly a one-of-a-kind wine-producing nation. A great majority of the country is hot, arid and drought-ridden, and since irrigation has only been recently introduced and (controversially) accepted, viticulture has sustained—and flourished—only through a great understanding of Spain’s particular conditions. Large spacing between vines allows each enough resources to survive and as a result, the country has the most acreage under vine compared to any other country, but is usually third in production.

Of the Spanish red wines, the most planted and respected grape variety is Tempranillo, the star of Spain’s Rioja and Ribera del Duero regions. Priorat specializes in bold red blends, Jumilla has gained global recognition for its single varietal Monastrell and Utiel-Requena has garnered recent attention for its reds made of Bobal.

MSKSPV001_2008 Item# 108972

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