Mencia Castro Baroncelli 2016

Parker über: Mencia Castro Baroncelli

-- Parker: There are always some new wines, and this time I tasted a light red with 12% alcohol. The 2016 Castro Baroncelli, named after the ruins of a Celtic settlement in the Monterrei hills, is produced from the higher part of the Gorvia vineyard, from vines that Mateo reconverted to gobelet, which provides less exposure of the bunches to the sun and will eventually increase the density of the plantation. This is pure Mencía from a massal selection he had. There is less ripeness than in the red Gorvia; this part of the vineyard ripens earlier, and he was looking for more balance through less extraction and shorter maceration. Like the rest of the wines, there is no trace of oak, even if matured in barrique, in this case using 500-liter ones for 12 months. I found a more elegant texture here, with finer-grained tannins, velvety, subtler, a little more ethereal. There are only 580 bottles of this. It was bottled in January 2020. 94+/100