O Estranxeiro Tinto 2023 750ml

The "O Estranxeiro" Tinto is mostly made from Mencía. Fruit is picked by hand and de-stemmed, and the juice is transferred to large chestnut barrels and concrete tanks before fermentation commences spontaneously with wild yeasts. The must typically spends around three weeks macerating before pressing, and the wine is then aged in a mix of Italian Gamba botti, Garbelotto botti, and concrete tanks for 6-12 months before bottling.

Eulogio Pomares is famed for his ground-breaking work at his family’s Rías Baixas’ estate, Bodegas Zárate. His single vineyard Albariños there helped redefine the variety’s ultimate potential, and he was also at the vanguard in recovering the region’s once-prominent red varieties. A proud Galician, Eulogio was further enticed by the immense potential he saw in the forbidding mountains of nearby Ribeira Sacra. Together with his wife, Rebeca Montero, he launched a new project, Quinta do Estranxeiro, there in 2019 that is already adding to his formidable legacy.