Northwestern Wines with History and Terroir THE COMPANIES: www.cotodegomariz.com www.xlsebio.es/ www.ailalawine.com www.Losvinosdemiguel.com (comercializadora) We´re Located in Gomariz - Avia Valley (Ribeiro) Galicia - Spain. GOMARIZ Avia Valley – Gomariz – Geographical Relief V Valley formed by the river of the same name. V Several streams that flow into the river Avia. V A range of mountains and different plains: left margin. Right margin: mountains. V The river Avia meets the Miño further down after Ribadavia. V V shaped. http://www.ribeirosdoavia.com/comarca_avia/e n Avia Valley – Gomariz - Soils Granitic Sands and a mixture of sand and clay (sábrego ) result of the erosion of granitic rocks. Light, fresh and extraordinarily aromatic wines. Avia Valley – Gomariz - Soils Clay proceeds from the sediments of tertiary river basins in the Cainozoic Period. Voluminous, warm and strong wines. Avia Valley – Gomariz - Soils Schist is a Palaeozoic metamorphic rock. Hard and little productive, very characteristic wines with a high content of minerals. Avia Valley – Gomariz - Clima The Ribeiro do Avia area is naturally protected against the frequent squalls that approach in all directions. The western mountain ranges of Faro de Avión, Testeiro and Suído form a natural barrier that propitiates a particular microclimate in the area. Avia Valley – Gomariz - Clima V Summers are warm, with high temperatures that close the season with frequent storms. V Winters are normally frosty, cloudy and dry, while rain and dump are the normal weather conditions in the rest of Galicia. V Summers register here a high level of insolation during the day, but the valley soon cools down after sunset because its North orientation. A 20ºC temperature variation is perfect for a slow and balanced ripening of the grapes. This way, red wines get a higher concentration of colour and tannins, and excellent aromatic properties in general. Avia Valley – Gomariz - Grapes Autochthonous grape varieties. (60% of catalogued autochthonous grape varieties in Spain are Galician, and most of them have been cultivated in the Ribeiro area for centuries) http://www.ribeirosdoavia.com/variedades/en MAIN LOCAL VARIETALS Treixadura Godello MAIN LOCAL VARIETALS Loureira Albariño MAIN LOCAL VARIETALS Torrontés Sousón MAIN LOCAL VARIETALS Caiño da Terra Caiño Longo MAIN LOCAL VARIETALS Carabuñeira Mencia HISTORY Although Ribeiro is one of the oldest wine-regions in Spain. History has been really hard with them. They had the most successful in medium age until XVIII century. Monasteries controlled the vine production and made the wine with the French methods learnt from the Cistercian and Benedictine monks that establishes here. An important colony of Jews people rose the wine market to the top. Ribeiro was exported to England shipped in Vigo port where It arrived along Miño river that cross Ribadavia. Ribeiro was the wine that Christopher Columbus shipped to discovered “America” in his trips along Atlantic sea. The political and religious problems between the Queen Elisabeth I and Philip II forced the commerce to stop. In that moment, English traders started to import to your country from Douro Region in the North of Portugal, that is the next river after Miño. After a dark period where viticulture problems (illness like odium or mildew, phylloxera…) and problems in the market, forced the people here to grow other varieties much more resistant and more productive. Some cellars began in the 80s or 90s to plant again the autochthon grape varieties that arise the Ribeiro wines to the top in the past. Local grapes were not totally lost because of the particular wines. http://www.ribeirosdoavia.com/historia/en HISTORY Cristobal Colón carried Ribeiro Monastry of San Clodio, “guilty” of wine to América in his first trip winegrowing developing in Ribeiro SOILS + LOCAL GRAPES + CLIMA + GEOGRAFICAL RELEAF = UNIQUE TERROIR UNIQUE TERROIR + HISTORY = COTO DE GOMARIZ Coto de Gomariz belongs to Ricardo Carreiro. It is in Avia Valley, in the Gomariz village . He follows the family business in spite of his preparation as engineering. Ricardo´s father involves in winemaking in the 70s thanks his South-American businesses but his family belong to Ribeiro from centuries and this region has been always implicated in wine and vines. The team is completed by Xosé Lois Sebio as winemaker. The generational relief assumed the creation of a young team that follows Rudolf Steinner theory respecting the “terroir” and following Maria Thun Calendar in the cellar and viticulture works. There only used natural products in their treatments of viticulture. The herbal compounds are made by them from the local forests. No any synthesis products or insecticides are used. They respect the soils keeping grass over to preserve the indigenous microbiology and morphology of soils. Coto de Gomariz owns 28 hectares planted into local varieties. 8 hectares are red vines. White wines are different and personal, but the reds are unique. The production is around 150.000 bottles between 9 main brands. www.cotodegomariz.com 28 Hectares of Own Vineyards. 20 of White and 8 of Red. 24 Ha in Gomariz: The Golden Mile of Ribeiro Natural Treatments O Figueiral (Winter) Winery (Whites Warehouse) O Tabuleiro Bancals - Sights A Cerrada Estate Vineyard O Figueiral Estate Vineyard White Wines Coto de Gomariz : Treixadura (70%), Godello, Loureira & Albariño Coto de Gomariz Colleita Seleccionada : Treixadura, Godello, Albariño, Loureira & Lado. (10 moths aging in barrel). “O Figueiral”single plot. (Clay) Gomariz X : Albariño (95%) & Treixadura (5%). “As Penelas” single plot. (Schist) Red Wines Abadía de Gomariz : (Sousón, Brancellao, Ferrol & Mencía) 12 months aging in barrel. VX Cuvee Caco : (Sousón, Caiño Longo, Caiño da Terra, Carabuñeira & Mencía) 20 months aging in barrel. VX Cuvee Primo : (Sousón, Caiño Longo, Caiño da Terra, Carabuñeira & Mencía) 30 months aged in barrel “A Ferreira” single plot. (Schist &clay) Limited Edition Wines SEiCA: (Sousón, Garnacha Común, Carabuñeira) 14 months aged in barrel. Biodynamic vineyard “A Taina”. Entry Level Wines – Avia Valley RED: SOUSÓN (100%) Top 100 Best Buys W&S Magazine 2014 WHITE: TREIXADURA (100%) + GOMARIZ (Coffee Liquor) • Volcán de Oro: Coffee from Antigua, grows in slopes and volcaine hillsides at 1.500 – 1.700 meters. Arábica from Guatemala. • Pico San Cristóbal: Coffee from Medellín grows in the slopes of cultivado Pico San Cristóbal at 1.500 – 2.000 meters. Colombia Supreme. Viños de Encostas is the personal project of Xose Sebio Lois. In the search for more direct wines, unique personality and processing riskier areas very marked identity. Areas often neglected or unusual, with different elaborations. Traditional and innovative about others, but all are trying to make the best of high quality grapes. But due to its low performance and high costs make it difficult to crop production as a conventional wine. http://vinosdeencostas.blogspot.com.es/ SALVAXE . White: Lado, Treixadura, Godello, Albariño, Caiño blanco and Silveiriña. Mixed forgotten vineyards in Gomariz and Bernardo Estevez´s (Issué) vineyards in Arnoia. 10-70 years old. 10 months in 500 l French Oak barrels. O CON . White: Albariño. Rías Baixas. 40 years old. Aged 11 months in Inox Vat. It is an illustration that recreates O Con, which is the large coastal rock next to the vineyards. O CON is a sea wine. Combining the elegance of granite, the sea breeze and the sun of Rias Baixas. Superhéroe: Red: Ferrol, Sousón, Caiño Longo, Bastardo and minority grapes. Mixed forgotten vineyards in Gomariz. 40-80 years old. 14 months in 500 l used French Oak Barrels It is an illustration that reflects the Super Hero that comes to help fight against the clone wines. Super Heroe is also the struggle of good against evil, against the globalized different. The personal against the impersonal, the other against the common and commercial. A commitment to be the wine that identifies us and be the first step for Encostas wines. 2 VIGNERONS . Biodynamic white wine from old vineyards in Gomariz and old vineyards of Verdejo in Nieva (Rueda) 10 months in barrel. Joint Venture with Ismael Gozalo. Máis Alá: Godello white wine from “Barranco Rubio”. 10 months in barrel (DO Valdeorras) It is an illustration of the mountain from where the grapes for this wine. Máis alá (“Beyond” in Galician) is the wine of slope height, a climber climbing to harvest their strains to the top of the mountain. The reflection of the hard work to get this grape. COIOS . Red wine. 100% Mencía. 60 years old vines in Valtuille. Bierzo. 14 months in 500 l used French Oak Barrels. It is an illustration that reflects the soil of Coios (boulders) from which the grapes grows. Coios is a pure wine in the field and cellar. Without manipulation or intervention. Minimal doses of sulfites and a slight filtering. The mineral character of the soil where they grow strains out our grapes. Hush: Red: Ferrol, Sousón, Caiño Longo, Bastardo and minority grapes. Vineyards: mixed forgotten vineyards in Gomariz. 30-70 years old. 14 months in 500 l French Oak Barrels. Wish: Red: Caiño Longo, Ferrol, Sousón, Bastardo and minority grapes. Single Vineyard: "A Encosta das Penelas": the northern last one in the region. 70-80 years old. 18 months in used 300 l French Oak Barrels. Image: It is a tribute to a legendary rock band gothic post-punk such as The Cure, who accompanied Sebio in his youth and scored. Wish is also the “Wish”, for this encosta over the years to be reflected in this wine. Treixadura Ailalá www.ailalawine.com Introducing Treixadura to the world! V Concepts such as youth, freshness, PARTY, JOY, folklore V The Avia Valley has a unique and inimitable conditions in the world and that makes wines are produced here in very special wines. V Lots of color, flowers are emerging from its name, as a kind of smoke emitted and it rises in the sky.