Wild Strawberry, Sour Cherry, Dried Rose Petals

Galicia / Red / Bastardo, Mencia / Organic

 It was fermented in an open stainless steel vat with 60% whole bunches and a long maceration, aged for six months in the same vat and then transferred into older 300 and 500ltr barrels. 3,000 bottles were filled by hand, unfined and unfiltered in May 2018, bottle-ageing followed as per usual at Muradella. Fantastic Galician Red with a Bugundian accent.

Notes on the producer

Setting out in 1991 José started a life’s work to restore the viticultural traditions of this region which had been lost after the second world war, when farmers abandoned hillsides and the mountain areas in favour of the higher yielding valley floors and an easier life. Here in a transitional zone between an atlantic and continental climate summers are very hot followed by freezing cold winters. He works with no less than 15 different red and nine different white varieties, trialling different grapes in different locations in his vineyards with various kinds of soils: clay, gravel, slate, quartz and granite, looking for the perfect spot to bring out the best in each variety, and working with insanely low yields.