Matilda Nieves - Mencia2024
RED WINE
- Producer Matilda Nieves
- Country Spain
- Region Galicia
- Appellation Ribera Sacra
- UPC 0 15643 71476 4
Reviews
Vinous Media 91
The 2024 Mencia Matilda Nieves is 85% Mencia with 15% Souson and Caino, all from Ribeira Sacra. It opens with aromas of blackberry and blueberry jam, a dark-fruited profile and a reductive touch. The palate is light, with fine tannins and juicy black fruit on the finish. Its structure is agile despite the potent nose, making this a crowd-pleasing wine.
by JH, Vinous Media , 2025
Technical Details
Background
A forest fairy, a young woman on her rocking chair, surrounded by the idyllic landscapes of the Ribeira Sacra, leaves behind a trail of flavors evoking the unmistakable nuances of Mencia.Matilda Nieves is one of the granddaughters of the founder of the winery, a family history, a present and a future that are bottled in this vintage where the Mencia variety predominates, providing the most intense and fruity notes, combined with the Souson and Caino varieties that they reinforce the intensity of the solor and refresh the elaboration. A selection specially created by our winemaker from grapes grown in the vineyards surrounding the winery in the Amandi subzone.
Estate
Built in an old 17th century rectory and surrounded by 20 hectares of vineyards, the winery is located in Amandi, the founder's hometown in the heart of the Ribeira Sacra (in the Northwest of Galicia, Spain). This is one of the 4 areas in Spain certified as "heroic viticulture" due to the steep slopes and its ground placed in terraces that make almost impossible to cultivate and harvest the grapes.Rectoral de Amandi has another 120 hectares of the vineyards distributed in different areas of the Ribeira Sacra, as well as, it counts with the collaboration of more than 300 local winegrowers that allow to maintain the tradition alive and the same caracther in the wines. The philosophy of Rectoral de Amandi is based on respect for the environment, the promotion of the local economy and quality and innovation as the main points to stand out, some examples of that are: the manual harvest and the production of vegan wines, the cultivation and caring of vines avoiding artificial fertilizers with herds of sheep that keep the land clean, weather stations with temperature sensors that provide useful information to reduce the use of phytosanitary treatments and the creation of our own yeastsfrom natural elements that guarantee the authenticity of the wine and allow full control of the production process.