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Ribas del Cúa, Oncedo, Mencia, 2019, Bierzo, Spain
Producer Profile
Ribas del Cúa is a family winery that began its journey in the late 1980s. With great effort, more than 250 small farms were brought together on the banks of the Cúa River, in the middle of the Camino de Santiago as it passes through Cacabelos, until grouping 60 hectares into a single plot: Finca Robledo.
The women of the family have taken the reins of management, giving a more modern and current image, without departing from the philosophy that gave rise to the company: tradition and modernity.
With the collaboration of Ana Martín, the new family generation, always at the foot of the vineyard, continues to bet on the care of the vine and the land, on the contemporary and the traditional as the basis of our success.
Viticulture
Finca Robledo extends around the winery, forming an extension of 60 hectares, where the Mencía variety, a native grape from the El Bierzo region, occupies most of the plantation area. Other varieties such as Tempranillo, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot complete a unique terrain that offers the best conditions for growing quality grapes.
Its favourable northern orientation lengthens the vine’s vegetative cycle in a relatively warm area, which allows us to obtain more aromatic and fresh wines, endowed with a longer life in the bottle.
Their vineyard sits on a very deep alluvial soil, with abundant boulders that are very suitable to produce exquisite wines.
Harvesting begins when the grapes are at the precise moment of maturity. In this way, thanks to the exhaustive control to which it is subjected throughout the vegetative period, to the selection in the field and the speed with which the harvest is carried out, it allows them to obtain a harvest with the optimum quality and degree.
Winemaking
The wine is obtained from Mencia grapes with controlled yields from the Oncedo plot of Finca Robledo. Aged 8 months in American and French oak barrels. It is bottled intact, without stabilization or filtration, remaining in the bottle for a minimum of 6 months to refine.
Tasting Note
An intense and fresh wine, with very personal aromas of the Mencía grape: broom and cassis, integrated with the coconut and vanilla of the oak regime. Good structure in the mouth, with integrated tannins, great length, and a very pleasant finish. A wine full of aromatic sensations which makes for easy drinking.
Goes well with
Pair with Veal, Beef Wellington, or Game.
Cellaring
Will improve with careful cellaring for 3-5 years.
Features
Varieties: Mencia 100%
Colour: Red
ABV: 14%
Closure: Cork
Style: Still Wine
Case Size: 6 x 75cl
Country: Spain
Region: Bierzo
Vintage: 2019
