Quinta da Muradella Monterrei Gorvia Blanco 2013

Quinta da Muradella Monterrei Gorvia Blanco is a biodynamically farmed white made entirely from Doña Blanca on a slate slope near Monterrei Castle.

Monterrei is a small, remote denominación in south-eastern Galicia on the Portuguese border, and José Luis Mateo has done more than anyone to make it known, working a scattered collection of old, dry-grown parcels. Gorvia is a 1.2-hectare site in the north-western Pazo de Monterrei subzone, near Monterrei Castle, which he took over some decades ago and has partly replanted using massale cuttings from the ancient A Trabe mountain vineyard. The vineyard is farmed on biodynamic principles, on a slope of slate and schist with a high iron content at four hundred metres. Where the Gorvia Tinto blends several varieties, the Blanco is all Doña Blanca. It is fermented in mature 1,500-litre oak foudres, a third of it on skins, then aged eleven months in barrel with partial malolactic conversion and two winters in stainless steel.

A white with the weight to sit at the table rather than before it, and one that ages. Serve at 12°C with roast pork, grilled octopus or a mature sheep's cheese.

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