Tasting Note - LG 94 point (on 2018 vintage)

Like the white Conasbrancas, the red 2018 Lomba dos Ares is a village wine produced with grapes from different parishes of Manzaneda (Soutipedre, Seoane and Langullo), where the old vineyards are all planted with a mix of grapesMencç©©a, Grao Negro, Negreda, Garnacha Tintorera, Bastardo, Aramç±€n... So, this is a village field blend that fermented at low temperature (below 20 degrees Celsius) with full clusters and indigenous yeasts, with a total maceration time of around 60 days. It matured in used 300- and 500-liter French oak barrels and a 3,200-liter oak vat for 10 months. I see a lot of finesse here, with notes of blood oranges, flowers and red berries, and it's very focused, aromatic and expressive, less reductive than previous years. There's more precision here; the palate is focused, clean and very tasty, with very fine tannins and a citrus, effervescent finish. 7,000 bottles were filled in December 2019.

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We make round 7000 bottles. Is made of various old little terraced vineyards along the river Bibei in the Concello de Manzaneda. We have various soils, granite, metamorphic schist and gneiss. This old vineyard 60 to 80 years old are in pruned in traditional little bush making a random field blend of white and red varieties mainly Mouratç±€n, Mencç©©a, Garnacha Tintorera y Grao Negro for the reds which conform this wine. Round two-month whole brunch macerations super tender. Ageing 12 months in old French old 500 to 3000 litre oak barrels.