Country: Spain

Region: Bierzo

Vintage: 2019

Cépage: Mencia (100%) 

Size: 750 ml

Rating(s): 93 (RP)

"The profile of the 2019 Encinas follows the reductive profile of their previous wines, a style that is very different from the rest of the producers from Bierzo, somehow more Rhône-ish. They did shorter macerations in 2019 and 2020 to avoid extracting too much, but it created some troublesome malolactic fermentation. The wine has abundant, dusty tannins and some rusticity."