By Bodegas Rectoral de Amandi
Matilda Nieves Mencia

Wine Details
Origin: D.O. Ribeira Sacra
Grape: 100% Mencia

Tasting Notes
The nose is a pure wild expression of Mencia, red forest fruit, blackberries, and raspberries with floral notes of violets. This is combined with hints of oak and offers a sweet taste of toffee caramel. On the palate, fresh entry and floral notes make this experience something unique and wonderful.

Food and Wine Pairing
Perfect with red meat, pork, or lamb.

Technical Analysis
Alcohol: 13.00%
Total Acidity: Less than 4.50 g/l tartaric
Reducing Sugar: Less than 4.00 g/l
pH: 3.25-3.75
[Information provided by Votto Vines]

Rectoral de Amandi, Matilda Nieves Mencia, Ribeira Sacra, Spain, 2020
Producer: Rectoral de Amandi
Wine Name: Matilda Nieves Mencia
Vintage: 2020
Region: Ribeira Sacra
Country: Spain
Award: Best in Show
Score: 97
Colour: Red
Style: Still - Dry (below 5 g/L residual sugar)
Bottle Size: 75cl
Closure: Natural Cork
Alcohol Level: 13.00%
Tasting Notes: Anyone who has ever seen photographs of the steep slopes of Ribeira Sacra will wonder how it is possible to produce a wine like this in our Value category -- but here it is, dark, fresh and thrillingly aromatic from first sniff to last swallow. This limpid... wine is made from the Mencia grape variety (known as Jaen in Portugal) and the emphasis is on its sloe, bramble and damson fruits in all their primary glory, almost as if it had been run from the vats just a week or two earlier. 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 ... yet the variety itself, and the legacy of its austere, granite-soiled origins, somehow contrive to stop the wine tasting simple.

MATILDA NIEVES Ribeira Sacra, Mencia 2020
Rating: 93
Value: $39
Drink: 2021-2027
Country: Spain
Region: Galicia
Appellation: Ribeira Sacra
Editor: J. D'Angelo
Issue: August, 2021
Importer: Votto Vines
This fresh and vibrant Mencia opens to aromas of black raspberries, red plums, crushed flowers, spices and pepper all taking shape. The palate is medium-bodied, with a lovely fine texture that displays beautiful focus. Flavors of black raspberries, dark plums and violet notes continue to build through the long, juicy finish. Overall, this is a fantastic wine which will be accessible upon release and will also cellar nicely over the next decade.

Rectoral de Amandi, Matilda Nieves Mencia, Ribeira Sacra, Galicia, Spain 2020
Tasted By: Sarah Jane Evans MW, Christine Allen, Beth Willard (at Decanter Tasting Suite, London, 31 Jul 2022)
Points: 91
Drinking Window: 2022 - 2025
Producer: Rectoral de Amandi 
Brand: Matilda Nieves Mencia
Vintage: 2020
Wine Type: Still 
Colour: Red 
Country: Spain
Region: Galicia
Appellation: Ribeira Sacra 
Sweetness: Dry 
Closure: Cork 
Alcohol: 13.00%
Body: Full
Grapes: 100% Mencia
Very bright on the nose with loads of red berry fruit. Palate is fresh and mouth filling. Finish is all about the spice and lingering plummy fruit.

Rectoral de Amandi 2020 Ribeira Sacra Matilda Nieves Mencia
Rating: 91
This is a fresh and bright, raw-grape beauty. It's all primary pleasure, pungent, in-your-face blackberry fruit, simple and friendly. "The blood of the earth, in a good way," one panelist said. A summery cookout red. (08/21)
Orvino, Coral Springs, FL

Rectoral de Amandi 2020 Matilda Nieves Mencia (Ribeira Sacra)
From: Ribeira Sacra, Galicia, Spain
Rating: 88
Winery: Rectoral de Amandi
Region: Galicia
Alcohol: 13.00%
Variety: Mencia
Wine Type: Red
Bottle Size: 750.00 ml
This deep red-violet colored wine has aromas of black cherry and bramble berries. It is soft in the mouth, with flavors of raspberry, strawberry, butterscotch and aniseed. Light tannins fade into a Valencia orange finish. 
Reviewed By: Mike DeSimone

BODEGAS RECTORAL DE AMANDI Mencia Ribeira Sacra Matilda Nieves 2020
Score: 86
Wine Type and Color: Red Still
Magazine Issue: Web Only - 2022
Grape: Mencia
Region: Spain / Ribeira Sacra
Reviewed By: Alison Napjus
Lightly tangy and fruit-forward, this cheerful red offers lots of black cherry and blackberry fruit flavors with hints of herb, spice and orange. Drink now.

Bodegas Rectoral de Amandi, Matilda Nieves Mencia 2020 Ribeira Sacra
Producer: Bodegas Rectoral de Amandi
Cuvee: Matilda Nieves
Appellation: Ribeira Sacra
Region: Galicia
Country: Spain
Colour: Red
Alcohol: 13.00%
Score: 17/20
When to Drink: 2021 - 2025
Published on: 23 Oct 2021
Date Tasted: 23 Oct 2021
Reviewer: Tamlyn Currin
Bodegas Rectoral de Amandi was founded in 1989 in the heart of the Ribeira Sacra, in the region called Amandi. They work with 180 ha of private vineyards and about 400 local vine growers. Vines planted in the traditional way on terraces on very steep hills, up to 500 m above sea level, and some vineyards have slopes around 40%. All grapes are necessarily hand-picked. [...] Macerated and spontaneously fermented at 25 degrees C for 15–20 days in stainless steel.
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 [...] (TC)