Vindemiatrix Red 2020

Vindemiatrix Red 2020,

La Senda

La Bodega La Senda is the creation of Diego Losada, a native of Bierzo, a region in the northwest of the province of León, bordered to the north by Asturias and to the west by Galicia. Pilgrims traveling to Compostela via the Camino Francés or the Camino de Invierno can admire its magnificent landscapes, where ancient vineyards cover the hilltops. Viticulture dates back to Roman times, but the region was so traumatized by the phylloxera crisis that vines were not replanted until the mid-20th century, without massive uprooting, giving these vines an average age of forty to seventy years. Born in Ponferrada, in the northern Bierzo, Diego has never been one for compromise. Resolutely radical, with a passion for freedom and rigor, he first applied this disposition to music in the heavy metal band he formed with his high school friends. It was later to wine that he would devote this same passion, studying organic chemistry at university and learning the scientific aspects of viticulture. But the scientific rigidity and conventional methods he discovered on some of the estates where he worked did not satisfy him. Attracted to a viticulture closer to the land, Diego reclaimed a few plots to showcase the Bierzo terroir as naturally as possible. In 2012, he created the La Senda estate, whose name means "the path," on the outskirts of his hometown. His wines would be like him: honest, frank, natural, and expressive. Not awarded the designation of origin, they are the pure reflection of their soils and their climate, of the personality and energy of their creator.
This very pretty, dense, homogeneous and balanced red, with a beautiful dark color, is composed of Mencia (90%), a grape variety from the Trousseau, and 10% Doña Blanca and Palomino. Unfiltered and unsulfured, it comes from seventy to ninety-year-old vines grown in the north of Bierzo on a homogeneous plot with clay-limestone soils very rich in quartz, at an altitude of 550 meters. The grapes macerate for three to four days in old, unsealed chestnut vats; the wines are aged in French oak barrels for eleven months. This is a magnificent red typical of the earthy style of Bierzo: both dense and fresh, powerful and fruity (red and black fruits), crossed by a breath of smoke, violets and spices. Velvety and fleshy on the palate. For stews and black truffles... This is also an excellent bottle to introduce you to the La Senda style; it will be even more eloquent in a carafe.
Natural wine with no added sulfites.