In a summer night in 2015 a few brothers and great friends had dinner together and tasted many wines to chose between a range of local varietiesin Bierzo and Galicia. They were looking for inspiration to plant “La cuadra de la Señora”, a hectare of land that once had been a malvasía vineyard… A few months later part of this land was planted with some 800 vines of Merenzao, a variety we had fallen in love with. On top of that, sitting the vineyard by the French Camino de Santiago were pilgrims pass by, it made perfect sense to grow the Merenzao that no question had arrived to Bierzo from Jura centuries ago. That trousseau is now one of us.Afetr the terrible conditions of 2017, it took us up to 2019 to first achieve a harvest with enough quality to produce the first single variety wine with 100% Merenzao in DO Bierzo.
- Technical information Cantariña Merenzao 2023
- Plot: Viña de los Pinos
- Site: Las Gundiñas, Villafranca del Bierzo
- 100% Merenzao (Trousseau)
- Soil: Clay with limestone and rolling stones
- Altitude: 575 m.
- Fermented in steel tank, aged 11 months in used 500 litres French oak cask
- alc. by Vol: 14.0º
- 935 bottles
Tasting Notes Merenzao 2023
Tim Atkin 94, Robert Parker 92+ points
“A really Galician style of wine, this Merenzao was planted in 2016 before the DO had
approved the variety. But what great foresight! Charmingly rustic, the nose offers bright tomato vine, sour cherry, lavender and a touch of burnt orange.”