AVANCIA CUVÉE DE O MENCÍA

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

Bancales and Ladeira. Located on the northern bank of the River Sil, oriented Southeast.

Bancales: 1950; Ladeira: 1980

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

Primarily slate soils intermixed with small quantities of quartz.

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

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.

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