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Mencía dominates the blend, alongside small amounts of Alicante Bouschet, Bastardo and white grapes from these field-planted vineyards.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAround a quarter of the grapes are fermented as whole clusters in large wooden vats with indigenous yeasts, followed by a long maceration with gentle cap immersion and no pumping. The wine is then aged for a year in used 225 and 500 litre barrels. Bright ruby with a violet rim, it shows plums and black cherries, woody spice and forest herbs, with fresh acidity and fine tannins.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eVintages may vary. 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The estate covers around 85 hectares, most of it more than 50 years old, and is today run by Raúl's nephew César Márquez, with Raúl still having a say in every blend.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eValtuille El Val is the estate's single-vineyard Godello, from the El Val paraje in one of the coolest corners of Valtuille de Abajo. The plot's aspect keeps it so cool that the grapes ripen around twenty days later than those in the Villegas paraje just a hundred metres across the valley, and its soils are rich in clay and stones.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOnly the best barrels of the estate's Godello are selected for this bottling. Fermentation runs with indigenous yeasts in 500 litre oak barrels, where the wine then ages for around a year. It is a structured, site-driven white that shows the freshness this late-ripening vineyard brings to Godello.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eVintages may vary. 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Based in Valtuille de Abajo, on the slopes beneath the Roman hillfort that gives the winery its name, the family has grown grapes here since at least 1752 and farms a large holding of old vines, most over 50 years of age.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEl Castro de Valtuille Mencía Joven is the estate's young red, made from Mencía grown across the family's Valtuille vineyards on soils of varying composition and aspect. The grapes are destemmed and the wine is made in a bright, fruit-forward style, designed to show the fresh, aromatic side of Mencía rather than oak or extraction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt offers an easy-drinking introduction to the wines of Valtuille, with lively red and dark fruit and the gentle, perfumed character for which Bierzo Mencía is known.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eVintages may vary. 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The family has tended vineyards here for more than two and a half centuries, and the estate today is run by Raúl's nephew César Márquez, with Raúl overseeing the blends.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eValtuille Cepas Centenarias is the top red of the estate and one of Bierzo's most distinguished wines. As the name suggests, it comes from vines that are often more than a century old, and since 2018 it has been sourced from a single parcel, Mata los Pardos, on sandy and clay soils over slate. Mencía leads, interplanted with small amounts of Alicante Bouschet, Bastardo and white varieties.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe hand-harvested bunches are fermented with their stems and native yeasts in open tanks, with a long, gentle maceration, before around 12 months in used French oak and bottling without filtration. 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