The red 2017 Peza Do Rei Barrica is also 100% Mencía, and the wine spent 12 months in French oak barrels, which gives it an intense aroma of wood, spices, smoke and toast. There's more ripeness in 2017, the fruit is black rather than red, and there's some rusticity too, along with some dusty tannins. There's too much oak for the wine. For fans of oaky reds. 2,500 bottles produced. It was bottled in August 2019.