Pedro Méndez 'Viruxe' Viño Tinto 2023

“Viruxe” is 100% Mencía harvested from an average of 75-year-old vines (2024) in the Salnés Valley’s Meaño area. It’s on flat surface of granite bedrock and topsoil at less than 100m. Cousin of local viticultural legend, Rodrigo Méndez, Pedro Méndez wears two hats with full-time work in his family’s vineyards and their restaurant during the summer. Located in the Val do Salnés subzone of Galicia’s Rías Baixas, he has medium-aged vines and pre-phylloxera Albariño vines that are nearly two-hundred years old that look more like trees. These ancient plants fill his full-bodied Albariños with structure and a pure citrusy, salty, mineral, high acidity power that only Albariño possesses. He also makes a compelling range of red wines with Mencía and Caíño.