Mostly Mencía, with Brancellao, Mouratón, Sousón & Garnacha Tintorera • Grapes are harvested by hand from a variety of steep, terraced sites on both slate and clay • Fermented with indigenous yeasts in large open-top wood vats • Aged in neutral barrel for 20 months.
Info
Producer:
Vintage:
2022
Country:
Spain
Region:
Galicia
Appellation:
Ribeira Sacra
Variety:
Mencia-based blend
Color:
Red
Sizes Available
| Full Bottle | ES-BIB-01-22 | 12/750ml |
Press & Reviews
Wine Advocate
Score
92+
Date
2025-07-24
"The red 2022 Lalama has a primary nose of bright berry fruit, leaves and a touch of honey and beeswax, with a sleek palate and a soft mouthfeel that makes it moreish and very easy to drink. In the warm 2022 vintage, it achieved higher ripeness, 13.6% alcohol, with a pH of 3.6 and five grams of acidity. It's round and has polished tannins. 77,750 bottles and 540 magnums produced. It was bottled in August 2024 after 17 months in oak containers of different sizes, but the oak is very integrated."
REVIEWS FROM PAST VINTAGES
2021
Vinous
Score
94
Date
2025-09-23
"The 2021 LaLama is 85% Mencía with other red varieties from Ribeira Sacra. This opens with balsamic-tinged notes of clear violet, dried flowers, plum and fresh red fruit. Delicate and honest in expression, it combines fruit with a faint herbal touch on the finish. The 2021 is complex, slightly lean and flavorful."
2021
Jancis Robinson
Score
16
Date
2024-10-08
"Delicate nose. Notes of redcurrant, herbs and hints of truffle. Flavourful with firm but subtle tannin and herbal touch on the palate. Worth every euro of its price. (FC)"
2020
John Gilman
Score
94
Date
2023-07-10
"As I have mentioned in the past, Dominio Do Bibei is located in the most isolated and rustically beautiful corner of Ribeira Sacra, Quiroga-Bibei, where the terraced mountain vineyards are planted on granite to the customary regional blends dominant in Menc¡a, co-planted with smaller percentages of Brancellao, Garnacha Tintorera, Bastardo and Cai¤o. The Lalama bottling is made from de-stemmed grapes, fermented with indigenous yeasts and raised in older Burgundy casks prior to bottling. The 2020 Lalama comes in at fourteen percent octane and delivers a pure and very refined bouquet of pomegranate, cassis, cigar wrapper, graphite, granitic soil tones, a touch of fresh herb tones, cigar smoke and just a touch of cedary oak. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied and beautifully balanced, with superb depth at the core, excellent transparency and grip, fine-grained tannins and a very long, focused and complex finish. This is a great bottle in the making, but give it some hibernation time in the cellar to let those suave tannins start to fall away and the wine to drink with generosity. 2033-2085. "
2020
Wine Advocate
Score
93
Date
2023-11-16
"One of the more reliable, affordable and available reds from Ribeira Sacra, the 2020 Lalama has the wild, herbal and spicy character, the berry fruit and balsamic notes from the Menc¡a (which is 85% of the wine) and the tasty palate with some sweet fruit and spice flavors. It lingers in your mouth after you swallow."