The 2012 La Bienquerida is a single-vineyards Mencía from an old plot of vines planted in 1906 and aged for 15 months in French oak. The natural concentration of the grapes form the old vines in a good, balanced vintage seems to be able to integrate the oak treatment. It has a fruit-driven nose, with the oak in the background - a change from their other wines- with quite ripe and juicy blackberries and cherries with spices and hints of smoke. The palate is medium-bodied, with fine, abundant tannins but with more fruit and less drying than the rest of the wines I tasted. This is very good in its style. Wait a bit. 4,000 bottles were produced. And somehow the top of the range is sold before its siblings,