Mencia
1984 2023
La Senda

Grape Variety: Mencia

Producer: Bodega La Senda (Diego Losada)

Region: El Bierzo, Castilla y León, Spain

Wild Scale: 3/5

Winemaking: Organic Mencia grapes were hand harvested from a couple of different plots. Fermented with indigenous yeast in chestnut barrel and aged for 1 year. No filtration, fining or added sulphur.

This Wine: Natural red wine with a medium body and fresh acidity. One of the brightest and fruitiest iterations of this now iconic cuvée. Diego has had lots of difficulties with the extreme weather conditions in his region over the last few years but this wine represents a real return to form. Great value and can be enjoyed by the more conventional wine lover as well as the rest of us! The name is a reference to Diego's favourite book and the fact he sometimes feels like he is living the story in the conservative surroundings of his town in the Bierzo valley.  

Notes on the Winemaker: Diego Losada is very much an outsider in his hometown of Ponferrada in the North of Spain and this was the case even before winemaking. Now he creates wines that stand out amongst the crowd in Bierzo with authentic and true reflections of the region. We have visited him a couple of times to see his vineyards and help him in the winery, always to the soundtrack of Metallica!