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On the palate, it delivers a refreshing acidity, bright fruit flavours, and a smooth finish that showcases the unique terroir of Monterrei.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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Strong Atlantic influences, granite soils and ocean breezes shape the wines here, giving them their signature freshness and maritime character.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProduced by the renowned Torres family, one of Spain’s most respected wine producers, Pazo das Bruxas takes its name from the “House of Witches”, inspired by Galician folklore and the mystical traditions of the region. Albariño is the flagship grape of Galicia, prized for its naturally bright acidity and affinity with seafood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a modern and expressive Spanish white that captures the spirit of coastal Galicia, fresh, elegant and made for long lunches, seafood feasts and warm afternoons shared with good company.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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Galicia is wet, cool and green, closer in climate to Brittany than to central Spain, and Albariño is traditionally trained high on granite pergolas so that sea breezes can move through the canopy and dry the fruit. Grapes are picked by hand into small crates, pressed gently and fermented cool in stainless steel, with a period on fine lees before bottling under screwcap.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMade for shellfish above all: Galician octopus, clams, oysters or grilled prawns. Serve well chilled, at around 8 degrees.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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Godello was close to extinction here in the 1970s and the Gayoso family were among those who brought it back; Bodegas Valdesil, which they run, now farms one of the largest old-vine holdings of the variety in the region. Sobre Lías, Spanish for 'on lees', draws on a spread of estate parcels averaging thirty years of age on the hillsides around Córgomo and Portela, in the municipality of Vilamartín de Valdeorras. The fruit is given six hours of skin contact before pressing, fermented with indigenous yeasts and then held six months on its fine lees. The slate supplies the firm line through the wine, and the lees ageing rounds the texture without obscuring it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrinking well now and for three or four years; serve at 10-12°C with grilled octopus, pork empanada or a hard sheep's cheese.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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The parcels behind this wine form part of the Gayoso family's original holdings and were planted by José Ramón Gayoso's sons in the early 1900s, using massale cuttings taken from the Pedrouzos vineyard, the same source that underpins Valdesil's standing for old Godello. Yields from vines of this age are small and the fruit arrives with concentration already built in. The juice is given around twelve hours of skin contact, then fermented naturally in a mix of oak vessels, mostly 600-litre barrels of third or fourth use alongside 2,000-litre vats, so the wood contributes texture and a slow exchange of air rather than flavour. The result is a white with real substance and the saline grip that slate reliably brings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt will reward five to eight years in bottle; serve at 11-12°C with turbot, roast pork belly or a mature Tetilla.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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Bodegas Valdesil is a Gayoso family estate whose name rests on its Godello holdings, including the Pedrouzos vineyard planted in 1885, and the Mencía is handled on the same terms. The fruit comes from old bush vines set between 500 and 550 metres on south-facing, slate-rich slopes around the village of O Moullón, in the mountains at the eastern limit of the appellation. Grapes are picked by hand and fermented with indigenous yeasts in temperature-controlled stainless steel, then aged about eight months, again in steel. There is no oak, which leaves the slate character and the variety's savoury, herbal edge unmasked. It is the estate's entry-level red and is made to be drunk rather than cellared.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBest over the next three years; serve at 16°C, a touch below room temperature, with grilled lamb, chorizo or a lentil stew.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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Mateo has worked here for close to three decades and has become one of north-west Spain's most respected growers, assembling a collection of old, dry-grown parcels and replanting some varieties with massale cuttings taken from the ancient A Trabe mountain vineyard. Gorvia sits near Monterrei Castle in the north-western Pazo de Monterrei subzone, a slope of iron-rich slate and schist at 400 metres, farmed on biodynamic principles. The white is made almost entirely from Doña Blanca, a local variety capable of real structure when yields are low. It is fermented in mature 1,500-litre oak foudres, roughly a third of the fruit on skins, then aged in barrel with partial malolactic fermentation for eleven months, after which the wine rests two winters in stainless steel before bottling.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlready expressive but worth five to eight years in the cellar. 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Mateo made his name at Quinta da Muradella with painstaking work in old parcels, and Candea is the more open, everyday side of that project, drawn from Vilela's mature vines rooted between 400 and 450 metres. Mencía leads the blend, joined by a coterie of local grapes including Garnacha Tintorera, Mouratón and Arauxa, the regional name for Tempranillo, all picked and vinified together in the traditional field-blend manner. Fermentation is wild, with roughly a third whole bunches left in the vat to lift aromatics and soften extraction, and maturation is carried out mostly in stainless steel so the fruit and the granite-and-slate character of the valley stay to the front. Nothing here is polished away by oak.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMade for drinking over the next three or four years. 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Valdesil is the reference producer of the appellation, its reputation built on Godello holdings that include the Pedrouzos vineyard planted in 1885, but the estate also farms a small quantity of Mencía to a similar standard. The fruit for Valderroa comes from old bush vines set between 500 and 550 metres on south-facing, slate-rich slopes around the village of O Moullón, in the mountainous eastern limits of the region. Altitude keeps the nights cool and the acidity firm, while the slate gives the wine its lean, savoury frame. Grapes are hand-harvested and fermented in temperature-controlled stainless steel with indigenous yeasts, then held in tank for roughly eight months before bottling. No oak is used at any stage, so variety and site do the talking.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReady on release and worth drinking over the next three or four years; serve at 16°C with grilled lamb cutlets, chorizo or a mushroom risotto.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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Bodegas Valdesil has become a reference point for the grape, and the cuttings behind Montenovo come from the estate's oldest material in the Pedrouzos vineyard. The fruit is drawn from younger plantings spread across the slate-strewn villages of Rubiá, A Rúa, Larouco, Petín and O Bolo. Each soil type and plot is vinified separately before assembly, and malolactic fermentation is suppressed so the wine keeps its acidity and its firm, saline line. There is no new oak, and the emphasis falls on texture rather than weight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBest drunk within three or four years of the vintage. Serve at 10-12°C with grilled prawns, salt cod or a roast chicken.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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The red Alanda is built on Mencía with Bastardo, known elsewhere as Merenzao or Trousseau, and Garnacha Tintorera, plus a small proportion of the white grape Doña Blanca. The fruit comes from a spread of organically farmed vineyards at altitude, over soils that include slate, granite and clay, so the wine reads as a survey of the Monterrei landscape rather than of a single site. One-third of the grapes are de-stemmed and everything is fermented together. The wine is aged for thirteen months in used oak barrels and a further six months in vat before bottling.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrinking well now with several years in hand. Serve at 16°C with roast pork, empanada or a plate of grilled mushrooms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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Candea is the label Quinta da Muradella makes with the fruit of a long-standing friend and now collaborator, Juan Jose Vilela. The wine is based on Mencía, joined by a group of other local grapes including Garnacha Tintorera, Mouratón and Arauxa, the regional name for Tempranillo, all from mature vines planted between 400 and 450 metres above sea level. Fermentations were wild and included roughly a third whole bunch. Most of the maturation was carried out in stainless steel, so the emphasis falls on freshness and juiciness rather than on oak.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReady now and good for the next few years. Serve at 16°C, or lightly chilled, with chorizo, roast chicken or a lentil stew.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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José Luis Mateo works there in a great many small batches, bottling only what convinces him and blending or discarding the rest. El Castrillón is a co-planted parcel on slate soils at 700 metres above sea level, which Mateo believes was planted between sixty and eighty years ago; among the vines he has so far identified Mencía, Bastardo, Tinta da Zorra, Garnacha Tintorera, Gran Negro and the white Verdello, better known as Godello. Because several of these varieties are not recognised in the appellation, the wine cannot carry D.O. Monterrei on the label, and Mateo describes it instead as a Viticultura de Montaña. In the traditional manner the grapes are foot-trodden together in an old wooden vat and co-fermented, then moved to neutral oak for some thirteen months before bottling.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is drinking well now and has the frame to keep for several more years. 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José Luis Mateo has spent three decades recovering old local varieties in the region, and the planting here reflects that work: a little over ninety per cent Mencía, with the balance made up of Bastardo and Caiño. Mencía in Galicia gives perfumed, cool-fruited reds with fine tannin and firm acidity, closer in build to the Loire or Burgundy than to central Spain, which is why growers here reach for the Burgundian comparison. The fruit was fermented with sixty per cent whole bunches in a wooden vat, then left on skins for a remarkable six months after fermentation ended before being racked into a variety of old casks for ageing. Nothing about the wine is designed for immediate impact.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGive it a short decant or time in the glass. Serve at 16°C with roast poultry, grilled pork or braised lentils.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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Bodegas Valdesil at Vilamartín is the family estate with the longest history in the grape. The great majority of its vines sit on slate and schist, so O Chao is the exception: planted by the family in 1941 on granite-based soils at 450 metres. It is one of two single-peza wines in the range, the other being the Pedrouzos bottling from the 1885 vineyard, offered only in magnum, and each yields just one barrel in the years they are made at all. The juice ferments slowly with wild yeasts and is raised in a single 500-litre French oak barrel, then bottled unfined and unfiltered. The decomposed granitic sand shows in a cooler fruit profile, a smoky mineral quality and a touch of phenolic grip.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUse a large glass and give it air; it will keep developing for some years. 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They were planted in the early 1900s by José Ramón Gayoso's sons using massale selection cuttings taken from the Pedrouzos vineyard, and every one of them overlooks the River Sil at an average altitude of 500 metres on slate. Slate holds warmth and drains hard, which suits Godello's combination of flesh and acidity. The juice was given around twelve hours of skin contact before fermenting naturally in a range of oak vessels, predominantly 600-litre barrels of third or fourth use together with 2,000-litre vats, and the wine did not go through malolactic fermentation. The core is fleshy orchard fruit, with a floral, resinous and smoky complexity around it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDo not serve it too cold: 11-12°C in a large glass, with air, brings out its depth. It suits grilled octopus, roast pork or a rich fish stew.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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Most of the better-known vineyard land in Monterrei, in the far south-east of Galicia, is slate; here José Luis Mateo went looking for granite and found it in a vineyard planted in granitic sands at 440 metres in the sparsely populated Oímbra district, on the Portuguese border. Doña Blanca is a Galician white variety that can turn out neutral in the wrong setting, and Mateo's argument is that the soil supplies the definition it needs. The wine is raised on lees in stainless steel alone, with no oak at any stage, and bottled unfiltered so nothing is stripped out. It is a narrow, small-volume experiment rather than a commercial line, and it reads as one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrink it over the next few years. Serve at 10-12°C with grilled fish, salt cod or a simple vegetable tart.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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It enjoys more sunlight hours and a drier climate than the other subzones, while cooling Atlantic breezes and the airflow off the river hold the ripening in check. Granitic soils and cool Atlantic nights supply the drive and energy. The domaine's core vineyards lie at Tomiño, and this release carries an unusually high proportion of Albariño for the house at 81 per cent, with the balance made up of Loureiro, Treixadura, Caíño Blanco and a dash of Godello. Winemaker Luisa Freire treats each variety separately and uses lees ageing to build texture and structure alongside the freshness, giving cool stone fruit over a firm Atlantic line, a nip of kernel spice and granitic grip at the close.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrink it young, over the next two or three years. Serve at 10-12°C with grilled sardines, salt-and-pepper squid or a seafood rice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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Bodegas Pentecostés was founded by Laura Montero Rodil and Dominique Roujou de Boubée, who rebuilt parcels in order to re-establish the only Rías Baixas vineyard in the Miñor valley, working from Pazo Barreiro north-east of Gondomar. The holding comes to under five hectares across three farms, on granite and steep terraces close to sea level, farmed by natural methods. Albariño is about three-quarters of the plantings, with Treixadura, Godello, Loureiro and Caíño accounting for the rest, and this bottling brings roughly a quarter of those companion varieties in alongside it. The fruit is hand-picked and held overnight at 10°C, then fermented slowly at cellar temperature in stainless steel, with a small part of the crop fermented in French oak. It rests undisturbed on lees for six months before bottling.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrink it young and well chilled. 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Pentecostés work the terraces of the Pazo de Barreiro within sight of the ocean. Grapes are hand-harvested and held overnight at ten degrees, then fermented slowly at cellar temperature in stainless steel, with a small portion of the crop fermented in French oak. The wines are then raised undisturbed on lees for six months, which builds the texture that carries the variety's naturally high acidity. The result is taut and chiselled, with a dense core of fruit rather than the light, simple profile that dominates the category.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGood now and will build complexity over three to five years. Serve at 10–12°C with oysters, grilled prawns or salt-baked fish.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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The old vines are trained in the traditional parral fashion, the overhead canopy anchored on granite posts that keeps the fruit clear of the damp ground in a region that sees a great deal of rain. Their gnarled, skinny trunks give low yields of concentrated fruit, and this parcel is kept aside for the estate's only 100% Albariño. A touch of skin contact and extended maturation on lees give the wine a stonier feel than the O Rosal bottling, and it is raised in small stainless-steel vessels chosen to build texture without adding oak. Granite is the common thread, showing as a chalky, tangy grip on the finish.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrink over the next four years with oysters, grilled sardines or a seafood paella. Serve at 10-12°C.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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Algueira is among the region's leading estates and helped establish its modern reputation. Where its premium releases are fermented as whole bunches and aged in oak, the grapes for this early-release wine are destemmed and raised entirely in stainless steel. It ferments with indigenous yeasts and spends 15 to 20 days on skins. The intention is a wine that is immediately enjoyable and shows what Mencía does here without the frame of wood: red and blue fruit, a floral lift, a vibrant and racy palate, and the graphite minerality the slate gives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFresh, low in alcohol and ready now, it will hold for three or four years; serve slightly cool at 15-16°C with charcuterie, roast pork or grilled vegetables.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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José Luis Mateo took over the Gorvia site around twenty-seven years ago and has since replanted parts of it with mass-selection cuttings from the ancient A Trabe mountain vineyard. The 1.2-hectare plot lies in the north-western Pazo de Monterrei subzone at 400 metres, on a slope of slate and schist carrying a good deal of iron, and is farmed on biodynamic principles. Mateo bottles both a red and a white from it. The Blanco is made almost entirely from Doña Blanca, fermented with one-third whole bunches in a neutral 1,500-litre foudre and a 500-litre barrel for a year, then blended and returned to stainless steel for a further year before bottling. The result is deep, savoury and chalky rather than aromatic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrinking well now and with the depth to hold for a decade. 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Jose Luis Mateo has spent his career recovering old majuelos, the small scattered parcels typical of the appellation, and farms them biodynamically at low yields. Alanda, roughly 'get going', blends Treixadura, Dona Blanca and Verdelho. The varieties are fermented together, added progressively to the vat as they come in, then matured in a combination of 1,500-litre used French oak foudre and stainless steel, so the wood works as a vessel rather than a flavouring. The wine that results is succulent and deep while keeping the mineral resonance and drive that mark Mateo's whites; our own note settled on the phrase liquid stone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReady now and capable of several years in bottle. Serve at 10-12°C with octopus, roast chicken or a bowl of steamed clams.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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Jose Luis Mateo farms organically across a spread of small, high vineyards, and Alanda Tinto works as a portrait of that landscape: Mencia with Bastardo, the variety known elsewhere as Merenzao or Trousseau, plus Garnacha Tintorera and a small proportion of the white Dona Blanca. About a third of the fruit is destemmed and everything is co-fermented together. The wine then spends 15 months in used oak barrels and a further six months in vat before bottling, an ageing regime aimed at texture rather than oak flavour. Shown blind, earlier releases have been read as premier cru Burgundy, which speaks to the perfume and the lacy tannins rather than to any resemblance in variety.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrinking well now, with the balance for medium-term cellaring. Serve at 16-18°C with roast duck, mushroom risotto or grilled lamb.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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Varietales is built on Albarino with 20% Caino Blanco, 20% Loureiro and a drop of Treixadura. Winemaker Jorge Marcote is evangelical about Caino Blanco in particular, a difficult, late-ripening variety that contributes piercing acidity and phenolic bite; Loureiro adds floral aromatics and Treixadura a little flesh. The winemaking follows the same lines as the estate's straight Albarino: hand-harvested fruit, an overnight rest at ten degrees, slow fermentation at cellar temperature in stainless steel with a small portion in French oak, then six months undisturbed on lees. What comes out is a Spanish white with real tension, a steely kick and stony extract behind the yellow stone fruit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrink now or over the next four to five years. Serve at 10-12°C with grilled fish, scallops or a plate of oysters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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Fernando González of Algueira has spent years restoring abandoned terraces, and this vineyard sits on the Orense side of the Sil, facing north and therefore cooler than most of the estate's holdings, with vines of 30 to 80 years rooted in the losa, or schist, of the Amandi gorge. The name honours Brandán, a Celtic figure said to have settled the area, a nod to the region's pre-Roman past. Fermentation is with natural yeasts alone and the wine sees no oak at all, so the fruit and the schist-derived tautness carry the wine. The result is layered and fleshy without losing its citrus drive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrink over the next four to five years with grilled octopus, scallops or roast chicken. Serve at 10-12°C.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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Caíño Tinto ripens in small, compact bunches with thick skins, which gives colour and firm structure but also demands care in the cellar. Here the variety is fermented as whole bunches, which tempers the tannin and lifts the aromatics, then aged for eighteen months in used French oak barrels so the wood adds structure rather than flavour. What emerges is high-toned and fragrant, with a lacy, textured palate, anise-scented berry fruit and a juicy, powdery finish rather than weight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrink now and over the next eight years with roast pork, duck or grilled mushrooms. Serve at 16-18°C.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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Santiago Ruiz's plantings spread across the exposed sunny slopes of Tomiño and are guyot-pruned to the traditional O Rosal mix of Albariño, Loureiro, Caíño Blanco, Treixadura and Godello, in that order of importance. The sub-regional designation requires Loureiro, and at around ten per cent of the blend its controlled yields bring citric drive and blossom lift to Albariño's weight. Each variety is fermented separately and raised for six months on lees in stainless steel before blending and bottling, which gives the wine a supple mouthfeel to set against its saline, rocky grip.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrink young, within three years, with oysters, grilled sardines or a seafood rice. Serve at 10-12°C.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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Carballo is drawn from a small group of ancient pezas — the local word for these fragmented plots — on the very steep, north-facing slopes of Carballeda de Valdeorras, among the highest vines in Galicia and rooted in pure black slate. It is one of Raúl Prada's more personal projects, and the winemaking is more involved than for the standard Valderroa Mencía: strict sorting, destemming, fermentation in concrete and sixteen months of maturation in neutral oak. The result is a Galician red built on freshness and length rather than weight, with a firm, mineral undertow from the slate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrinking well now and good for another five to eight years, it suits grilled sirloin, roast pork or mushroom dishes. Serve at 16–18°C.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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The pezas — the family's historic small plots — lie around Portela in Vilamartín de Valdeorras at an average of 500 metres on pure slate, and were planted in the early 1900s by José Ramón Gayoso's sons using cuttings from the old Pedrouzos vineyard. The grapes are given about twelve hours of skin contact before fermenting naturally in a range of oak vessels, mostly 600-litre casks of third or fourth use and 2,000-litre vats. Malolactic conversion is blocked, which keeps the acidity taut. The oak is used for texture rather than flavour, and the wine has the density and slow build of a serious white Burgundy from a cool, rocky site.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBest served in a large glass and not too cold, around 12°C, with roast chicken, scallops or a soft-rinded cheese; it will develop over the next five years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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Because the parcels face in different directions they ripen at different times, so Valdesil harvests and vinifies each one separately. The older plantings crop at around 22 hl\/ha and were grafted from the estate's Pedrouzos vineyard, planted in 1885. Every parcel is picked by hand and fermented with wild yeasts, then blended and held for six months sobre lías — on lees — in stainless steel. That gives a wine with more flesh and texture than the entry bottling while keeping the chalky precision and the thread of acidity that mark good Valdeorras.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrink it over the next three to four years with grilled fish, pork loin or fresh goat's cheese. Serve at 10–12°C.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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The plantings average about fifteen years of age and are all mass selections taken from the oldest Godello in Spain, the 130-year-old vines of the family's Pedrouzos vineyard. The fruit is fermented with wild yeasts and raised in stainless steel, with no oak, so the emphasis falls on the fleshy citrus fruit and the chalky, smoky minerality that the slate gives. For an entry-level wine it carries a good deal of the estate's house character.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrink it young, within two or three years, with grilled sardines, salads or a plate of empanada. Serve at 10–12°C.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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The fruit for this bottling comes from old bush vines planted between 500 and 550 metres on south-facing, slate-rich ground at the mountainous eastern limit of the appellation. The grapes are hand-harvested and fermented with indigenous yeasts in temperature-controlled stainless steel, with no oak used at any stage, so the wine keeps its lifted, cherry-scented Galician character intact and its colour bright. Rocky soils, altitude and cool Atlantic weather together account for the racy acidity, while the plush, silky texture comes from the age of the vines.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrinking well now and over four or five years. Serve slightly cool, at 15-16°C, with charcuterie, grilled pork or a plate of empanada.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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Ribeira Sacra is worked in narrow terraces above the Sil and Miño rivers, and Algueira's vines average eighty years, rooted in a steep slope of gneiss, quartz and slate. The fruit is fermented with wild yeasts using whole bunches throughout, pressed by foot, and aged for twelve months in old oak with some vessels of local chestnut. The result is pale but not slight, perfumed and finely detailed, with more colour and density than a Jura red and a lucid, tender frame.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrinking well now and good for eight years. Serve slightly cool, at 15-16°C, with grilled rib-eye, roast pork or wild mushrooms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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Fernando González Riveiro founded Algueira in the 1980s and has been central to the appellation's revival. Carravel is drawn from several old-vine terraces that hug a cool zone of perilously steep slate and schist soils in the Doade subregion; where the estate's Pizarra comes from the warmer Carballo Cobo vineyard, this is the more restrained of the two flagship Mencías. The fruit is hand-harvested, then foot-trodden and fermented with roughly 20 per cent whole bunches in large wooden tronconique vats. Ageing runs between 12 and 24 months in neutral 600-litre barrels, with a few very old barriques, so the wood carries the wine rather than flavouring it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReady on release and good for another decade in the cellar, it suits slow-roast lamb, grilled octopus and hard Galician cheeses. Serve at 16-18°C.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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It lies in the Ribeira do Sil subregion of Ribeira Sacra, where the walled terraces stand two to three metres high and run 200 metres long, planted to Albariño, Godello and Treixadura in soils rich in gneiss, quartz and slate. Every task here is manual. The 2021 vintage was cool and late under Atlantic influence, and the blend is 40 per cent Godello, 40 per cent Albariño and 20 per cent Treixadura. The three varieties are co-fermented with indigenous yeasts and aged six months in stainless steel, a deliberately neutral raising that keeps the site's citrus and salinity intact.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBest given an energetic decant now, or cellared five years for added weight, it goes with roast pork, grilled prawns and salt cod. Serve at 10-12°C.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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The fruit comes from the estate's younger Mencía vines, rooted in the precipitous slate and schist that rises from the river. Where the premium releases are whole-bunch fermented and raised in oak, these grapes are destemmed, fermented with indigenous yeasts and given 15 to 20 days of maceration before being raised in stainless steel. Nothing is added to complicate the picture: the aim is a direct, low-alcohol introduction to what Mencía does on this rock, with the graphite edge that runs through the whole cellar.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBest drunk over the next three or four years, it works with charcuterie, roast chicken and grilled vegetables, and takes a light chill. Serve at 14-16°C.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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The name honours the Celtic ancestry of the area: Brandan was a Celtic warlord who first settled it. Winemaking is deliberately plain. Fermentation runs with natural yeasts alone and the wine sees no oak at any stage, so what reaches the bottle is the mountain fruit and the salinity the schist gives it, finished with the faint phenolic grip that comes from low yields. It is a straightforward reading of a variety that can easily be over-worked.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrink over the next four or five years with grilled fish, empanada or a plate of shellfish. Serve at 10-12°C.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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Vineyards are terraced above the river on alluvial soils, and Santiago Ruiz's holdings sit on the exposed sunny slopes of Tomiño, guyot-pruned and planted, in decreasing order, to Albariño, Loureiro, Caíño Blanco, Treixadura and Godello. A wine carrying the O Rosal designation must include Loureiro, and at around ten per cent of the blend its controlled yields bring citric drive and a floral lift. This release runs to 76 per cent Albariño, 11 per cent Loureiro and five per cent Treixadura, with Caíño Blanco and Godello making up the balance. Each variety was fermented separately and held six months on lees in stainless steel before blending and bottling, which gives the wine a supple mouthfeel behind its driving acidity and rocky grip.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrink it young, within three or four years, with oysters, grilled sardines or a plate of pulpo a feira. 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Gorvia is a singular site, and the red comes from the same vineyard as the Gorvia Blanco: alongside the dominant Mencía there are small amounts of Bastardo and Caíño Redondo interplanted in the old fashion. Fermentation was carried out with 60 per cent whole bunches in a wooden vat, followed by an extended post-fermentation maceration, after which the wine was racked into a range of old casks, none of them new. The balance is the point here — power held against lightness and restraint, with field strawberry and sweet cherry, generous texture hemmed in by silky tannins, and lively acidity carrying a long mineral finish.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrinking well now and worth another five to ten years in bottle. Serve at 16°C with roast lamb, grilled octopus or a plate of jamón and aged sheep's cheese.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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Amandi is its most celebrated sub-zone, a cool site whose slate and schist give Mencía perfume and tension rather than weight. Algueira, run by Fernando González Riveiro, has done as much as any producer to restore these terraces and to argue the case for the region's reds alongside its whites. Carravel comes from two parcels of mature vines that hug the steepest part of the gorge. The fruit was hand harvested, as it can only be here, then foot-trodden and fermented with roughly 30 per cent whole bunches in large wooden tronconique vats. Ageing ran for between twelve and eighteen months in neutral 600-litre barrels and some very old barriques, so the wood acts as a container rather than a seasoning.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eApproachable now and capable of a decade, it goes with roast pork, grilled octopus and lentil dishes. Serve at 16-18°C.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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