Verónica Ortega ROC 2023

To understand what ROC is, we have to explain who Verónica Ortega is: a Jerez woman who has worked at Clos Erasmus, Álvaro Palacios, Comte Armand, Domaine de la Romanée Conti, Domaine Combier or Niepoort, and who in 2010 came to Bierzo to elaborate a great wine of mencía. He cultivates two very old vineyards, over 80 years old in Valtuille de Abajo, following an organic cultivation. The estates are of sandy-clay soils, with a multitude of different minerals but a strong sandy component that gives an aromatic finesse and a more precise size in the mouth, as a counterpoint to the muscular touch of the clay soils. To make ROC, 30% whole bunch in a steel tank, working very smoothly during fermentation (again, the fineness). The pressing is vertical and the malolactic is done in used burgundy barrels, as well as the aging of one year.