Brand:  A senda vermella 17/18; launch year 2020.

Village: Barro, Cambados, Vilanova and Portas.

Zone: without appellation D.O. Rías Baixas.

Grapes: red .

Vineyards: 5 plots of 4 vinegrowers; caiño :plot Perdecanai in Barro village, plot Miranda in Cambados village;  mencía: plot A Gándara in Vilanova village, plot Eira Padín in Cambados village; Vines 15 to 95 years old;  in espalier plot Eira Padín; traditional pergola style teh rest of plots.

Soil: decomposed granitic, sandy soils .

Exposure: southwest plot Eira Padín; West plots Lantaño and Gandará ; southwest the rest of plots.

17 vintage: Warm winter. Early sprout march 17-19. Hot spring and summer with high temperatures but constant that caused an optimal maturation without caused hydric stress. Beginning of harvest on august 30,2017.

18 vintage: Winter begins dry and final cold-rainy, brudbreak late; Spring continued cold-rainy and just hot, flowering normal; Summer too cool-wet delayed maturation but August dry-hot +30° precipitating it in 15 days; harvest started 9/10 and ended 10/6 of 2018.

Vinification: Clusters selected by hand in the vineyards. Quickly transported to the winery in  15 kg crates. Foot-trodden with 100% whole-clusters in in vats, separating the grapes. Alcoholic fermentation and part of the malolactic with the skins for 21 days with the subsequent pressing in vertical press. Malolatic fermentation 65% in used French oak barrels and 35% Stainless without the use of any additional product. Aging on its lees for 20 months (harvest 17) and 9months (harvest 18)  until bottling. Bottling without clarification, filtered and  with modest levels of SO2.

Bottled: august 21, 2019 (fruit day /waning moon).

20% harvest 17 + 80% harvest 18; Aging in bottle for 10 months.

Production: 3.888 botellas.

                      Plot:  Eira Padín (Mencía)