Mencía (men-THEE-ah) is grown in the northwestern regions of Spain amdist lush green valleys and mountains. It has experienced a revival in recent decades, and in the right hands it is a wine of purity, finesse, and complexity. Pedro Merayo spent 20 years reestablishing and caring for his vineyards and in 2010 began bottling his wines from 80 year-old vines. Sustainable

Sustainable viticulture is the journey of continually improving one's ability to minimize farming's environmental and social footprints by avoiding the use of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides in order to to promote soil health, with an ethos that also takes into account energy use, water use, farm biodiversity, climate change and worker welfare and safety are issues.

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