2019 Coto de Gomariz 'Finca o Figueiral' Collieta Seleccionada Bianco Ribeiro

Winemaker Notes:  Complex array of fruit aromas: melon, peach, tangerine, fig and quince, with a suave floral overtone. Stony and precise, boasting very good depth to its fresh honeydew, citrus zest and pear skin flavors. This lush yet lively white blend finishes with excellent clarity and mineral-driven persistence. An aged white wine from the vineyard O Figueiral, the first plot that was restored by Caco Carreiro after his American adventure in 1978 with various autochthonous varieties from Ribeiro. It’s the plot that surrounds the Coto de Gomariz vineyard. An estate wine, with all of the different varieties already planted in the same plot with clay soils and schist sub-soil: Treixadura, Lado, Albariño, Godello, Loureira and a few more up to 12 different ones: Dona Blanca, Torrontés, Silveiriña… It is fermented and matured for 10months in 500L French oak barrels. They are always fairly new. It is the top white wine from Gomariz. A wine that can be aged, complex, unique that is considered one of the best white wines in Spain.

Coto de Gomariz is the oldest registered vineyard reserve in the Spanish peninsula. It is located in the valley of Gomariz, where wines have been made since the 10th century. For centuries, it has belonged to different ecclesiastical orders. It was not until the middle of the 19th century, with the confiscation of Madoz, that it was passed on to a private owner, leaving it distributed among different wineries and small winegrowers.

One of these private owners was the Carreiro family.  In the 70s, Ricardo Carreiro Ameijeiras started to recover native varieties, and in 1980 they bottled their first wines. Xose Lois Sebio, technical director and oenologist since 2001, started to cultivate the farms using organic and biodynamic principles. Currently, most of the 24 hectares they own in Gomariz are cultivated using natural viticulture (following the Fukuoka theories). This way of working with the vineyards, the different soils (granite sands, clay and schist) and a unique microclimate, are the ideal conditions to achieve authentic wines that reflect the personality of the area where they are born.

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