Cultivated since Roman times, Ribeira Sacra’s steep terraced vineyards are some of the most picturesque and treacherous to work in the world of wine. It is broken up into five subzones: Amandi, Chantada, Quiroga-Bibei, Ribeiras do Miño and Ribeiras do Sil. It has a greater diversity of grapes, expositions, altitudes, slope angles, bedrock types and topsoil compositions than many other wine regions. Rectoral di Amandi is one of the five Galician wineries belonging to Bodegas Millenium (Rias Baixas Abellio Albariño, Ribeiro Gran Alanis). They own 180 ha in total of vineyards, work with 400 local growers.

Blend of hand-picked Mencía (85%), Garnacha and Sousón with vines ranging from five to 60 years old, half of them on alluvial soils and slate subsoils, and half on pebbles and granite. Aged 8 months in tanks.

Dark, fresh and thrillingly aromatic from first sniff to last swallow. The palate is soft-textured, mouth-filling, exuberant and comely, structured more prominently by acidity than tannin, though that acidity is sweet and juicy in its own right. There is nothing at all sharp or hard about this tender, almost lip-smacking red.
97 Decanter

Take a 7B pencil (dark, graphite, coal dust soft); trace a dark-red rose petal on tissue paper; fold the paper into an envelope; tuck the pencil inside it; fill it with black cherries, three cloves, a pinch of caraway seeds, a sprig of rosemary. Sprinkle in some menthol-sherbet space dust. Drop in a fairy-sized firework. Close the envelope, crush elderberries between your finger tips, finger-print the envelope with the purple-black juice. Deliver it in a wine glass. Impishly delicious, outrageously fresh yet black-velvet sumptuous, doo-wop fun yet pretty complex, super-juicy wine.
17 Points Jancis Robinson

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