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Roc 2022

Name: Roc 2022
Brand: Verónica Ortega
Price: 44.80 EUR
Availability: InStock

Roc is a more structured single-vineyard Mencía from old vines around Valtuille. It’s a step up in depth and tension, balancing dark fruit with intense minerality.

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About this wine

Roc is sourced from very old Mencía vines on sandy and clay-slate soils in Valtuille, giving naturally low yields and concentrated fruit. Verónica ferments the grapes with indigenous yeasts – often with some whole clusters – and ages the wine in neutral barrels to refine the tannins without adding overt oak flavour. The 2022 shows a darker, more brooding Bierzo profile than Quite: black cherry and wild strawberry, dried flowers, licorice and a graphite-like minerality. It’s still graceful and medium-bodied, but with more grip and ageing potential.

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Tasting Note

The Wine Advocate characterises recent vintages of Roc as a Burgundian-textured Bierzo, with fine-boned tannins, precise red and black fruits and a long, stony finish; 2022 follows in that line with a bit more warmth and generosity.

In the glass

Deep ruby with a slightly opaque core.

In the nose

Black cherry, black raspberry, dried rose, licorice and a cool, stony note.

On the palate

Focused and linear, with dark, crunchy fruit, firm but polished tannins and a long, mineral, slightly savory finish.

Verónica Ortega

Verónica Ortega, who trained with the likes of Comte Armand, Raúl Pérez and Alvaro Palacios, crafts some of Bierzo’s most refined Mencía-based wines. She focuses on old vines, often on slate and clay, and vinifies with whole clusters, neutral oak and low intervention. The wines are perfumed, spicy and mineral, with a Burgundian sense of delicacy.

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Character of the wine

Grape Varieties

Mencía

Vinification

Old-vine Mencía, spontaneously fermented (often with a portion of whole bunches) and aged around a year in seasoned French oak barrels.

Classification

D.O. Bierzo

Style

Spiced & Structured

Aging potential

Long aging possible

Decant Time

1–2 hours

Drinking Temperature

15-17 °C

Body

Medium +

Conservative food pairing

Roast lamb

Funky food pairing

Mole negro

Music pairing

Classic rock

Art pairing

Symbolism

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