Winemaker Notes
Shiny straw color. It shows a complex and powerful bouquet of boned fruits and white flowers. It is very nice and creamy in the mouth, fruity and elegant with mineral notes, slightly saline.
Blend: 80% Godello, 20% Dona blanca
Professional Ratings
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Wine Spectator
Saline, smoke and citrus flavors give this firm white a Chablis-like character. More about acidity and focus than fruit flavors, but remains energetic and balanced through the clean finish. Drink now through 2022.
Godello is native to northwest Spain and has experienced a major revival in the last 20 years. Godello wines are typically sleek and lightly creamy in texture. Barrel fermentation and lees stirring are typical in Valdeorras, Spain where the grape comes from. These winemaking techniques make the most of Godello's inherent structure and help bring out its lovely floral character. Somm Secret—DNA profiling says that Spain’s Godello is actually identical to the Portugese grape variety Gouveio, which grows throughout the Douro and Dão (where it used to mistakenly be called Verdelho).
One of the few northwestern Spanish regions with a focus on a red variety, Bierzo, part of Castilla y León, is home to the flowery and fruity Mencia grape. Mencia produces balanced and bright red wines full of strawberry, raspberry, pomegranate, baking spice, pepper and black licorice. The well-drained soils of Bierzo are slate and granite.