Castro Ventosa Valtuille Cepas Centenarias

Red
Spain
Bierzo
Mencia

Tracked vintages: 9
Community notes: 233
Merchant offers: 41

What we know about this wine

Critics: 97/ 1002020 · nearest vintage with a critic score
Real drinkers: 84/ 100233 notes, every vintage
Market price: £35per 75 cl2020 · nearest vintage with a price · 6-bottle in-bond trade, September 2023
Drinking window: 2023–2032peak2020 · nearest vintage with a window

Flavour and structure

What drinkers taste in this wine across its vintages, and how it is built: body, acidity, tannin and sweetness on a five-point scale, with the number of ratings behind them.

Structure from 70 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Spanish Mencia.

Body3.5 / 5: LightFull
Acidity4.0 / 5: SoftCrisp
Tannin3.2 / 5: SmoothGrippy
Sweetness1.7 / 5: DrySweet

Earth · earthy, leather, minerals, balsamic, smoke
Red fruit · cherry, red fruit, strawberry, raspberry, red cherry
Black fruit · blackberry, plum, black cherry, dark fruit, blackcurrant
Oak · oak, tobacco, vanilla, cedar, clove
Spice · pepper, licorice, fennel, white pepper, eucalyptus
Floral · violet, lilac, peony

Grapes: Mencia. Proportions are not recorded.

Descriptors are the words drinkers used most, grouped; counts are mentions. Tannin is shown only where it was measured.

Realised in-bond trades£23–£35GBP per 75 cl · 5 priced vintages

2014One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2020

Vintages

Each vintage has its own page with both scores, the drinking window and the merchant price range. The meter is the score on a 60-100 scale and its colour is where that vintage stands against its own drinking window. Prices are per 75cl, with the case size and month they were taken from.

Peakinside the middle half of its stated window
Drinkinginside its stated window
Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone

Best scored: 2019; 98 / 100 from a critic
Drinking now: 2019; peak, window 2022–2035
Lowest price: 2014; £23 per 75 cl

Price by vintage

One monthly median per vintage, divided by the case size it was quoted in, so the bars are the same unit. These are our own aggregates, not offers: nobody will sell you a median.

Solid: a realised in-bond trade

Valtuille Cepas Centenarias monthly median by vintage, per 75cl · Each bar is one month of one SKU; the table below names the case size, the tape and the month behind every figure. 3 vintages are priced in a case size the merchant did not state, so no per-bottle figure is drawn for them

View as a table

Valtuille Cepas Centenarias monthly median by vintage, per 75cl
Vintage	Price / 75cl	Critic score	In drink window	Basis
2020	£35	97	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, September 2023
2019	£26	98	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2026
2018	£26	96	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, April 2026
2015	£32	96	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, November 2024
2014	£23	95.5	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, April 2024

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