2015 Dominio do Bibei Mencia Lacima
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The 2015 Lacima is really impressive. It's a serious, balsamic and reticent red with a faithful expression of rocks through its blend of 70% Mencía with 20% Brancellao and 5% each Mouratón and Sousón. The grapes were very healthy, and the crop was quite small and concentrated. It fermented with natural yeasts in open-top 500-liter French oak vats and had a long élevage of 17 months in used barriques followed by no less than 14 months in bottle before it was released. It combines power with elegance, and it has concentration and nuance and feels quite young and lively. It's tasty, clean and long, and it seems to have good balance and all that is needed for a long and positive development in bottle. This has to be one of the finest vintages of Lacima so far. 3,786 bottles were filled in October 2017.
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Jancis Robinson MW
Luis Gutiérrez, Wine Advocate
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Mencía-based blend with other varieties like Brancellao, Mouratón and Sousón. Vineyards between 50- to 100-years-old at an elevation which ranges from 300 m up to 700 m. Fermentation begins in open wooden barrels of 500 litres with a subsequent transfer to 300-litre barrels in order to continue with malolactic conversion. Aged for 19 months in French oak barrels followed by 16 months’ maturation in bottle. Tasted blind. The wine smells like a natural, herbal expectorant, really fragrant and aromatic with notes of After Eights. It is superbly well-made wine. It lingers with force and elegance. Totally balanced and with deliciously mellow tannins. It is a complex wine with oak slightly dominating but still with an outstanding delineation and depth. Pure hedonism. (FC)