Veronica Ortega Quite 2017 750ml

Considered Verónica's entry-level red with 50 year old vines. Mostly Mencía (with the remainder a blend of local white varieties), organically grown on clay, sand, slate, limestone soils. The fruit is destemmed and skin macerated for about a week before pressing into amphoras, barriques, and foudres. The wine ages for 8 months in neutral 225L French oak barrels (50%) and 800L amphora (50%) before being bottled unfined, unfiltered, with minimal s02 at bottling. 2017 was a frost year so some purchased fruit was needed to complete the vintage, most of which sourced from the Valtuille area. Good structure mixed with fresh fruit. Drinking beautifully! Case production: 1600 (half of her total production).