Adega Algueira - 2013 Carravel (Mencia) - Ribeira Sacra, Spain With its black cherry and

With its black cherry and raspberry fruit combined with earthy

yet smooth

This is a big

fermenting with indigenous yeast and using no additions

Adega Algueira - 2013 Carravel (Mencia) - Ribeira Sacra, Spain With its black cherry andLocated in the green, cool Northwest of Spain, just above the Northeast corner of Portugal, Ribeira Sacra lies along the banks of the river Sil, and in the case of this wine, the vineyard is so steep that a ladder is necessary to go from terrace to terrace. Similar to another recent success story in Spain, Priorat, the vineyards that had first been planted by the Romans had been almost completely abandoned after the combined pummeling of the phyloxera