A more premium Bierzo bottling from Gancedo, Xestal is produced of course from old vine mencía, aged in this case for...

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This is a very deeply colour, mulberry-shaded mencia that has seen considerable oak ageing. The very ripe...

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This is a dense, concentrated mencía, with compelling, vivid notes of ripe blackberries, black cherries cinnamon,...

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Xestal, Galician for “gestalt,” as in “an organized whole that is perceived as more than the sum of its parts”...

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Gancedo Xestal Mencía 2020, D.O. Bierzo