Bodega La Senda El Aqueronte

To make this wine, Diego harvests his most premium old-vine Mencía grapes from a single, high-altitude vineyard, which are fermented with ambient yeasts in large chestnut barrels, where the wine also then ages for almost a year. The result is a wine with a beautiful aromatic elegance to it, showing aromas of cranberry, pomegranate and red cherry, along with delicate floral roses and violets and an underlying hint of cracked black pepper. The altitude lends a nice acidity to the wine, and the vineyard site adds bags of stoney minerality, along with a slightly wild funkiness. A great gastronomic wine, which will pair wonderfully with charcuterie, red meats or Iberian pork.