As Xaras is 100% Mencia from the villages of Chandoiro and Larouco in the Val do Bibei. Mencia grown in the Val do Sil with its microclimate altered by the building of a series of hydroelectric damns, thereby increasing the amount of reflected light, humidity, and average temperatures, resulting in a fruit-forward style of wine. On the other hand, the narrow Val do Bibei, with its nearly abandoned terraces surrounded by scrub and forest, produces a much more vertical, nervy, and refreshing version of Mencia – precisely the type of Mencia Curro and Jesús prefer.
