Finca Pombeiras - Mencia&co (21)

90% Mencía en 10% 'tutti frutti' (Brancellao, Caíño, Sousón, Merenzao e.a.) | single vineyard 'Pombeiras' van 1,2ha. | in het midden van de heuvel in Amandi | terroir van graniet en schist | 70+ jaar oude stokken | 100% whole bunch | vergisting in gebruikt Frans eiken | rijping in gebruikt Frans eiken van 225-500 liter voor minimaal 12 maanden | puur | bloemen | specerij | wilde kruiden | viooltjes | soja | stoer maar verfijnd | gedoseerde kracht | denk aan Bourgogne | 800 flessen

Guímaro

Na twintig jaar hard werken heeft Pedro een prachtig domein gecreëerd dat klaar is voor de toekomst. Het bezoek aan de wijngaarden is indrukwekkend! Wat een helden werk wordt hier verricht om het mogelijk te maken deze unieke wijnen te bottelen! Zo steil en dus alles met hand! Er is geen enkele twijfel over de succesvolle toekomst van Guímaro, mede doordat Gutiérrez van Parker al meerdere malen de Finca Capeliños als beste wijn van Galicië heeft uitgeroepen! All time favourite!

Review

The 2021 Finca Pombeiras felt more exuberant than the 2021 Finca Capeliños. It fermented in open-top barrels with 100% full clusters and then matured in used 500-liter oak barrels for the élevage of one year. It has darker fruit, and it's spicy and a little earthy with some dusty tannins. Only 800 bottles. It was bottled in May 2023. 95+/100 Luis Gutiérrez

Guímaro doesn't stop experimenting; they showed me three new wines this year, and they are testing granite eggs and doing some trials with fortified wines with the help of Niepoort. They have 16 hectares of vineyards and control a further 26 across Ribeira Sacra. They produce around 200,000 bottles, divided in 11 different labels. I tasted wines mostly from 2021 and 2022. 2021 could be considered a classical vintage; it was harvested between the 13th of September and 10th of October, the dates that were normal 15 or 20 years ago. Yields were good but the weather was challenging, with constant rain and cooler temperatures. The wines have a very fresh profile. 2022 was very warm in other regions, but they consider it very good for them, with the harvest taking place between the 13th of September and third of October. They had enough rain, the weather was not as extreme as in other regions and they achieved wines with a lot of freshness but with more structure than in 2021.