Casar de Burbia Mencia 2021

Nemesio Fernández always dreamt of owning a winery, and at the age of 55 he started to realise his dream. In 1989 he started buying vineyard plots in the higher areas of El Bierzo, he spent his weekends visiting from Porto, walking the land discovering vineyards that had been abandoned because of poor soil and low yields.

The locals wondered who this madman from Porto was, but in 2002 with his son Isidro they built their winery.

In recent years, the family project has consolidated, and Casar de Burbia has positioned itself among the best wines of El Bierzo.

Their firm commitment to organic vineyard cultivation, research with indigenous grape varieties, and the creation of single-vineyard wines from their own vineyards provide consistency and uniqueness to their project and their wines.

At the same time, Casar de Burbia remains faithful to tradition, recovering cultivation techniques and winemaking processes to make wines as they were made in the past.

The wine is vinified in small tanks of 10,000L. where the different plots of the vineyard are fermented separately, to define later the mixture that will form the new vintage.

The wine is aged for two months with their own lees to finally enter French oak barrels of second and third year for a time according to the type of vintage, which is usually around 10-12 months.

Black cherry, blackberry and blueberry, this is a vibrant, spicy Mencía with firm tannin's and acidity, a true reflection of the minerally-rich Bierzo terroir. Decant for 2 hours.