The 2007 Seleccion Familiar, from 70- to 90-year-old Mencia vineyards is aged for 18 months in a combination of French, Russian and American barrels and a further 15 months in bottle. It has a familiar note of the local cured beef, cecina, which is both smoky and spicy, some straw and hay notes and very ripe fruit. The palate feels briary, with plenty of cinnamon and vanilla and good length. Drink 2014-2019. Bodegas Peique is a family business created in 1999 by the Peique family in the village of Valtuille de Abajo, where they have been making wine for over 90 years. These old families have quite extensive vineyard holdings, and in the case of the Peiques, it is 40 hectares, located in the village of Valtuille de Abajo at altitudes ranging from 450 to 600 meters. They harvest some 230,000 kilograms of grapes, with which they produce a wide range, but the quantities for most of the wines are quite limited; the lions-share of the production, 180,000 bottles, is for the unoaked Tinto Mencia. Imported by Steve Miles Selections, Denver, CO; tel. (303) 495-3811