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Sangarida - Attis Bodegas y Viñedos -R.E. 8580 LE 00
At A Glance
Sangarida is the Bierzo project begun in 2019 by brothers Robustiano and Baldomero Fariña with their longtime collaborator Jean-François Hébrard. It carries the family work behind Attis Bodegas y Viñedos from Galicia into Castilla y León, with six wines: three whites and three reds. The useful starting fact is simple: this is not Attis under another label, but a Bierzo home built by the same family and collaborator.
The Producer
Robustiano and Baldomero Fariña are the brothers behind Attis, whose wines are made in Val do Salnés in Rías Baixas. Sangarida began when the brothers and Hébrard established a Bierzo project in 2019; the change of region placed the family’s indigenous-variety focus inside a separate six-wine range. Sangarida is therefore a name to look for when the Fariña connection matters but the bottle is from Bierzo rather than their Atlantic Galician base.
Place
Bierzo is Sangarida’s wine region, while Val do Salnés in Rías Baixas remains the home of Attis. The mountains of León stand between those two parts of the family story, and Sangarida describes itself as Attis’s second home beyond them. On a label, the consequence is geographical: a Sangarida bottle belongs to the Bierzo project, while an Attis bottle belongs to the family’s Rías Baixas work.
This distinction matters because Sangarida was created as a new wine project, not as a continuation of the same regional range. Its three whites and three reds give the Bierzo venture its own shape, while the people behind it connect it to a family that had already begun bottling under its own name in 2000.
Soil And Site
Sangarida is rooted in Bierzo, and the available material establishes the region rather than a named single vineyard, slope, soil type, or village. The wine consequence is that the six bottles should be read first as a Bierzo range rather than assigned an unsourced parcel story. Site detail belongs on a bottle only when the producer has attached it clearly to that wine.
The project’s emphasis on indigenous varieties keeps the focus on grapes native to its working landscape. Without a complete parcel list, the most grounded way to approach the range is through colour, bottle name and the Bierzo origin carried by Sangarida, rather than by assuming a uniform soil character across every white and red.
Story
The Sangarida story has an earlier family chapter. After three generations of viticultural tradition, Robustiano Fariña began bottling under the family label in 2000. That decision made a family wine name possible; in 2019, Robustiano and Baldomero joined Hébrard to take the work into Bierzo and establish Sangarida.
The project name comes from Sangarida, the tree nymph loved by Attis in the family’s retelling of Greek mythology. The myth supplies the name, but the wine fact is the move: a Bierzo range of three whites and three reds was added to a family whose parent winery remained in Val do Salnés. Sangarida’s labels therefore carry both a new regional address and an older family thread.
Vineyards And Cellar
Sangarida extends Attis’s stated artisanal work with indigenous varieties into Bierzo. That is a direction for the wines rather than a claim that every bottle follows one documented recipe: the supplied material does not establish Sangarida-wide harvest dates, vessel choices, oak use, lees ageing, yields, or certification.
For the glass, that boundary is useful. A Sangarida bottle can be approached as a Bierzo wine from a project committed to indigenous varieties, but its texture, acidity, tannin, oak and finish should be taken from the individual wine rather than projected from the family connection alone. The six-bottle range is broad enough to hold both white and red structures without reducing either colour to a single house style.
Wines
Sangarida’s official portfolio is evenly divided: three white wines and three red wines. This is a range architecture, not a ladder of importance. The whites offer the white-wine side of the Bierzo project; the reds offer the red-wine side; together they show that the Fariña brothers and Hébrard built more than one colour or one cuvée around indigenous varieties.
One documented bottle is Sangarida Mencía 2023. Its name places Mencía at the centre of a red wine, while the wider portfolio makes room for five further wines across white and red. Mencía is the named grape cue here; its body, tannin, fruit, spice and finish should be judged from the bottle in hand rather than supplied with a generic regional tasting note.
In The Glass
Begin with the label’s concrete information: Sangarida, Bierzo, colour, vintage and, where shown, grape. Sangarida Mencía 2023 provides the clearest named grape cue in the supplied record, so its aroma, fruit, tannin, body and finish are the features to notice when tasting it. The producer’s indigenous-variety focus makes grape recognition more useful than searching for a uniform cellar signature across all six wines.
Across the range, whites and reds should not be expected to deliver the same structure. In a white, look for fruit, citrus, acidity, texture and finish; in a red, look for fruit, floral or spice notes, body, tannin, savoury detail and finish. Those observations keep the tasting connected to the bottle’s colour and grape rather than attaching unsupported oak, lees, mineral or fermentation claims to the whole project.
A Bottle To Understand It
Start with Sangarida Mencía 2023. It is a named Sangarida wine whose label makes the grape visible, and it sits on the red side of a portfolio otherwise divided between three whites and three reds. Taste it for fruit, body, tannin and finish, then use those elements to decide whether the project’s Bierzo reds speak to you before moving through the other bottles.
This bottle also brings the project’s central relationship into focus without confusing regions: it is Sangarida in Bierzo, made by the Fariña brothers and Jean-François Hébrard, rather than an Attis wine from Val do Salnés. That makes the label, grape and regional project legible in one pour.
Anecdote
In 2019, Robustiano and Baldomero Fariña began Sangarida in Bierzo with their longtime collaborator Jean-François Hébrard. Their family’s parent winery, Attis, was already based in Val do Salnés within Rías Baixas, and Robustiano had begun bottling under the family label in 2000 after three generations of viticultural tradition. For the Bierzo project, the three men chose the name Sangarida: in their retelling of Greek mythology, Sangarida is the tree nymph with whom Attis fell in love. The new project became Attis’s second home beyond the mountains of León, with a portfolio of three white wines and three red wines.
Final Word
Sangarida is worth seeking out for a concrete reason: it places the Fariña brothers and Jean-François Hébrard in Bierzo, working with indigenous varieties through a six-wine range. Begin with the named Mencía 2023, then let the label, colour and grape lead the next bottle.
Sources
- https://sangarida.es/en/
- https://attisbyv.es/en/
- https://winesofgalicia.com/producer-guide/attis-bodegas-y-vinedos
- https://www.bodeboca.com/bodegas/sangarida
- https://www.lebendigeweine.de/en/sangarida/
- https://sangarida.es/en/vinos/