Valdeorras

Love wine, tradition and technology.

Uniting tradition and technology and effort, the Board of the DO Source of Valdeorras has conducted continuously careful recovery of the native strains as the Godello and boosted the cultivation of variety Mencía otigeny order to ensure the highest quality wines unique, genuine, capable of satisfying the most demanding palates know and whose name and have crossed our borders.

The production area of this appellation of origin occupies much of the river basin Sil, and Bibei Czars. In this area, bordering the leonaesa del Bierzo and which shares many characteristics, the climate is drier than in the rest of Galicia, mingling with the influence Atlantic continental traits, and although there are many hours of sunshine, too precipitation abound. The fertile agricultural valleys, the major mineral wealth of its mountains and its location in a shared natural entrances to Galicia, facilitated since ancient settlers arrived.

The climate prevailing in the area is a continental influences Atlantic. The average temperature is around 11 ° C and the rate of rainfall ranges between 850 and 1,000 mm. Annually. The soils are quite varied. A distinction is made between those who rely on blackboards, a little deeper, with heavy stones and textures limosas; those who do on granitic material, deeper and richer in sand, and those who sit on terraces and sediment, which often elaborate songs shot. The varieties authorized for the production of white wines are:-Preferred-godello, Mrs. white palomino (sherry). For reds, which are currently gaining special interest, they are:-Preferred-mencía, merenzao (Mary ardoña), alicante and grao black. The region has a large number of wineries in the area can be seen essentially two monovarietales wines. The first and most famous example, the target of godello, fruity aroma of fine, yellow, gold or straw and good structure in the mouth, with an alcohol content average 12.5 º. In developed with red highlights mencía, intense purple and elegant fruity aroma, light and tasty, well-balanced acidity alcohol, tasty and intense and prolonged aftertaste.