A fresh Spanish red wine from DO Bierzo, blending young Mencía fruit with a splash of Godello.
The nose is stunningly fresh, strawberry and cherry with a floral lift and a streak of minerality underneath. On the palate the crunchy red fruit carries straight through, held together by tannins that are fine and silky rather than gripping. Bright, shining purple in the glass, and fermented entirely in stainless steel to keep that immediacy rather than round it off in oak. This is one to pour freely rather than pick apart, and the finish stays clean and light on its feet, the sort that has you reaching for the next glass before you've quite decided to.
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"This wine has a wonderfully inviting fresh nose, with mineral, crunchy red fruit and fine silky tannins. A really delicious drop whose appeal should go on beyond natural wine fans."
Cantariña has farmed vineyards near Villafranca de Bierzo, on the Camino de Santiago, for three generations. Grapes once sold on to larger wineries are now vinified entirely in-house: 13 hectares worked parcel by parcel, with low-intervention winemaking and indigenous-yeast fermentation throughout. It's a small, hands-on operation, and the wines taste like it: pure and true to where they're from.
This is a Spanish red wine that doesn't take itself too seriously. Fresh, crunchy and genuinely moreish, with just enough of that Godello splash to keep it interesting. Serve it a touch cool and it'll happily see off a whole table of small plates.
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