Castile and Léon, Spain
- Body
- Acidity
- Tannin
- Fruitiness
- Oak
- Style
- Ripe & round
- Dark berries
- Red berries
- Pairs with
- Beef
- Mature and hard cheese
- Game
- Lamb
- Mushrooms
- Pork
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About this wine
Food pairings by the winemaker
- Beef
- Mature and hard cheese
- Game
- Lamb
- Mushrooms
- Pork
Vinification, winemaker's own words
- Soils:
- Chalk, Sand
- Terroir:
- All Demencia vineyards are located within the municipality of Villafranca del Bierzo. They lie at altitudes between 490 and 600 meters, and their soils vary in texture, orientation, and composition, complementing one another.
- Harvest:
- Picked by hand
- Fermentation:
- Steel (100%)
- Storage:
- Steel (100%) 9 months
Old oak (100%) 24 months - Winemaker:
- Nacho Léon
Fermented in small stainless steel tanks with indigenous yeasts at temperatures up to 28 °C. The wine is run off the skins directly into barrel, with a short post-fermentation maceration of two days. Malolactic fermentation takes place in barrel, followed by 24 months of ageing in fine-grain French oak with one racking. The wine then rests for a further nine months in stainless steel tanks prior to bottling. No stabilization is applied.
Meet the wine maker
Nacho LéonAbout the wine and its character
- Country:
- Spain
- Region/Subregion:
- Castile and Léon/Bierzo
- Classification:
- DO
- Certification:
- Organic
- Grape:
- Mencia 100%
- Vintage year:
- 2021
- Color:
- Deep ruby to garnet core with subtle purple highlights at the rim.
- Aroma:
- Aromatic and mineral, showing dark cherry and blackberry, violet florality, graphite, spice, and subtle oak notes.
- Taste:
- Structured and focused, with fine-grained tannins, fresh acidity, and a savoury, slightly spicy finish of notable length. Elegant and built to age.
- Alcohol content:
- 14%
- Sugar content:
- 0.7 g/l
- Acidity:
- 5.7 g/l
- pH-value:
- 3.7
- Sweetness:
- Dry
- Contains sulphite:
- Yes
- Volume:
- 750 ml
- Closure:
- Natural cork
- Bottle:
- Glass
- Best Served:
- 16 - 18 °C
- Ageing potential:
- 0 - 10 years
Meet the winemakers behind Demencia Villafranca del Bierzo
Information provided directly by the winery.
Information
- Winery
- Demencia
- Founding year
- 2006
- Farming area
- 4 ha
- Production
- 15 000 b/y
Our dream is to create a great wine, based on our understanding of the vineyard, its terroir, and the native grapes of the Mencia varietal. An artisan production, a vigilant aging, evoking traditional consumption tied to the local culture, all without forgetting the latest trends and responding to changes rapidly and with a personal commitment. Our mission is to create a sustainable project, able to add value to our grapes, and allowing us to maintain and recover our vineyards to their best potential. Our vision is to grow and to create a specially designed winery to develop an artisan labour, becoming the high quality wine benchmark in Bierzo.
Meet Demencia