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The visually stunning Finca Cortezada vineyard was carved into a dizzyingly steep amphitheatre well over a century ago. When Fernando González Riveiro found this abandoned plot, it has been reclaimed by the Galician forest and he spent years painstakingly clearing the land and rebuilding the ancient terraces.
Located in the Ribeira del Sil sub-region, the vineyard’s walled terraces are between two and three meters high and 200m long, planted to Albariño, Godello and Treixadura. These old vines are rooted in soils rich in gneiss, quartz and slate. Naturally, all the work carried out here is manual. It’s a special place of which Luis Gutiérrez has written, “deliver[s] wines with incredible energy and, like this wine, pungent minerality and inner power.”
The stellar 2019 is a blend of 40% Godello, 40% Albariño and 20% Treixadura. The fruit was co-fermented with indigenous yeasts and aged for six months in stainless steel to preserve the pristine fruit and minerality. The resulting wine is worthy of its spectacular setting.