Located on the Atlantic coast, just above Portugal, with a mild, maritime climate and expansive coastline estuaries, Rias Baixas shares the same mineral-rich soils and cool climate as renowned white wine-producing regions, including France?s Loire Valley and the Rhine region of Germany. The O Rosal sub-region, with its unique, iron-rich schist soils and closer proximity to the Atlantic Ocean, is known for producing more mineral, quality-driven wines than other parts of the appellation. All of Terras Gauda?s estate-owned grapes are planted close to the symbolic estuaries of the O Rosal sub-region, and the vineyards they use for making the Abadia de San Campio grow in the slightly more humid and warmer lands that surround the winery. All vines are hand-picked and trellised double cordon royat, instead of the traditional pergola system, to increase the grapes? natural concentration. Grapes are harvested slightly earlier here and contain a higher concentration of flavors and lower acidity, producing a more supple and voluminous style of Albarino. During harvest, grapes are transported to the winery within minutes in crates weighing no more than 40 pounds. Upon arrival to the fermentation hall, clusters are destemmed and grapes undergo six hours of cold soaking before beginning a traditional, low-temperature alcoholic fermentation in stainless steel vats with native yeasts supplied from the estate-owned vineyards. The finished wine is aged sur lees for 3-4 months in tank and then cold stabilized and filtered before bottling.
| Producer |
| The Terras Gauda Group comprises of three wineries and one vegetable processing plant: Bodegas Terras Gauda, Vinedos y Bodegas Pittacum and Quinta Sardonia, and the A Rosaleira cannery. The Terras Gauda winery was founded in the O Rosal Valley, within the territory encompassing the Rias Baixas Denomination of Origin. The winery started with an initial production of 37,000 bottles from the 1990?s harvest. Currently we are commercializing more than 1. 5 million bottles. Our 160 hectares of vineyards ensure, in quantity and quality, that we obtain the necessary raw material to create our wines. The main goal of the Bodegas Terras Gauda winery is to make the highest quality wines, with their own distinctive personality that emanates from the local noble varieties when they are grown in ideal conditions and vinified according to the traditions of the region but with the most advanced technology and utmost care at all stages of the process. We have been certified according to the ISO 9001:2000 standard since 2000, and this allows us to fine tune even more every process aiming for maximum quality and food safety of our products, within our philosophy of ongoing improvement. In 2002 the Bodegas Terras Gauda acquired Bodegas Pittacum, located in the Bierzo Denomination of Origin region to make quality red wines from the grapes of this ancient vineyard and age them in oak barrels. In 2010 we added the Quinta Sardonia winery, located in Sardon de Duero to the Group in order to create high range red wines from grapes grown according to biodynamic agricultural principles. Our business lines were later diversified by purchasing A Rosaleira an traditional vegetable cannery founded in O Rosal in 1940. |
| ABV: |
- |
| Distillery: |
- |
| Vintage: |
- |
| Region: |
- |
| Size: |
750 ml |
| Availability: |
Currently Out of Stock |
| Distributed by: |
IW |
