The single-vineyard 2019 Finca Pombeiras comes from a Mencía-based field blend that is always fermented with 100% full clusters and indigenous yeasts in 1,500-liter oak vats and matured in well-seasoned 500-liter French oak barrels for one year. This is one of the most elegant wines in the Guímaro portfolio, but it's also powerful, has abundant, fine-grained tannins and is very long. It's a very serious red for the long run. 2019 was a very complete year with a long cycle and perfect ripeness of the grapes. They kept this at 13.5% alcohol. Only 800 bottles produced. It was bottled in February 2021.

Pedro "Guímaro" thinks 2019 could be one of the finest vintages of recent times, with textbook conditions and a perfect (and long) cycle for the grape. 2020 was a warmer vintage than 2019, but the profile of the wines is still quite fresh although with a little more alcohol. It was a low-yielding year—25% or 30% less than normal—which, combined with one week of very warm weather, increased the ripeness and concentration. 2021 can be considered a classic vintage in the style of yesteryear, with a very fresh wine profile. It was a very challenging year in the vineyards, with lots of rain and cold weather, a little in the style of 2013. Yields were generous.

They are experimenting with granite eggs and also testing fortified wines with the great help of Niepoort, with whom they also produce a dry red, Ladredo. In 2020 there will be two new wines, one Miño and one Sil, and the 2018 and 2019 from the granite eggs, but the wines were not ready when I tasted. Luis Gutierrez

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