Almanova Ribeira Sacra Mencia 2023 Scotch This is the modern Troplong

This is the modern Troplong at full stride — pure

The 2021 is showing beautifully but is still quite young and will easily reward up to a decade in the cellar

with juicy red fruit gliding over a fine-grained

If you can recall the flush stirrings of your first teenage romance immortalized in Austrud Gilberto’s Bossa Nova rendition of Rogers and Hammerstein’s song “It Might as Well be Spring” you’ve got this wine – charming

It is planted mostly with Grenache that soaks up the Provencal sun

Almanova Ribeira Sacra Mencia 2023 Scotch This is the modern TroplongWeve featured this producers white wine before, and now it is time for his delightful red. For those unfamiliar with Ribeira Sacra and or Roberto Flammini (which I am guessing covers everyone in the continental U. S.), I think there are two important waypoints to approaching this wine. Id like you to think of this wine as Ribeira Sacra Red Wine, the place, instead of Mencia, the grape. Mencia is far more well known than Ribeira Sacra or Roberto