Why it matters
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.
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.
Place and vineyards
Where the wines begin
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.
In the cellar
Vineyards and cellar
Sangarida extends Attis’s stated artisanal work with indigenous varieties into Bierzo.
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 to know
The range in view
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.
A useful way in
A bottle to begin with
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.