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Veronica Ortega, La Llorona, 2021

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Chamomile, Fennel, Citrus

Castilla Y Leon / White / Godello / Organic

Farming

Organic

Producer

Veronica Ortega

Grape

Godello

Wine Type

White

Country

Spain

Region

Bierzo DO, Castilla Y Leon

Vintage

2021

Alcohol

12.5%

Size

75cl

 

35yo vines on sandy clay soil located in the town of Pieros at 500m altitude. The grapes were destemmed and macerated overnight, spontaneous fermentation and ageing for 15 months in 600, 500 and 225ltr as well as stainless steel. A fine example of top Godello.

Notes on the producer

Veronica Ortega was brought up in Cadiz with five elder brothers and a famous bullfighting father, but catching the wine bug in the 2000s she moved away to Priorat where she worked with Alvaro Palacios and Daphné Glorian (Clos Erasmus), then Burn Cottage in Central Otago NZ, Niepoort in the Douro, Comte Armand and then a season at DRC in Burgundy, followed finally by a spell with Domaine Combier in Crozes. Upon her return to Spain, she worked with Raúl Perez in Bierzo from whose cellar she experimented before setting out definitively with her project in 2012. Veronica has gradually pieced together her holdings of 5.7ha of old vines through leasing and buying, though she has struggled to buy plots, noting that "locals are tied to their land, and prefer to own it while doing nothing with it, rather than selling!" The help and network of her friend Ricardo Palacios (Descendientes J. Palacios) proved instrumental in securing top terroirs. In addition, she buys grapes from growers working well in the vines, although she and her team choose the picking date and carry out the harvest. She follows organic practices in her own vineyards and is in the process of converting to biodynamics.

Most of her wines are partly aged in amphora (the balance sees 228ltr oak barrels), because Veronica likes the purity and the texture of the fruit it conveys. She works with whole bunches for her single-vineyard wines although Quite is destalked, and she keeps sulphur levels as low as possible – total of 25 to 40mg/l through the range depending on the wine's stability

 

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