Appellation: Vino de España. Cuvée: A Seara. Colour: red. Garnacha Tintorera, Mencia, Mouraton 70%, Dona Branca, Godello, Palomino 30% About: New wine in 2019, from granite soils in the Ribeira Sacra region adjoining Valdeorras. Same grapes as Nacho’s other new wine in 2019, Meu, but different, late-ripening soils, the last to be picked. Incidentally, there’s … Continue reading La Perdida A Seara
Appellation: Vino de España. Cuvée: O Pando. Colour: White. Grapes: Godello. About: The name comes from the first vineyard Nacho worked. The grapes now come from other vineyards as well but all in similar location, all on clay, rather than the more common granite. Same grapes as the Orange version. Vines Location: from several parcels … Continue reading La Perdida O Pando
Appellation: Vino de España. Cuvée: Meu. Colour: red. Grapes: Garnacha Tintorera, Mencia, Mouraton 70%, Dona Branca, Godello, Palomino 30% About: Meu means “mine” in Galician after how Nacho feels about the wine, a wine for his friends who are like brothers and sisters. New wine in 2019, from a chalk hillside. Same grapes as Nacho’s … Continue reading La Perdida Meu
Almost everything we know about La Perdida’s wines for now has been posted here! La Perdida is run by Nacho Gonzalez who produces fewer than 15,000 bottles a year from 28 tiny parcels of vines in inland Galicia. A maverick, he’s fiercely organic, and works without any additives in the cellar. The wines are humorous and generous, and … Continue reading La Perdida information posted!
Appellation: Vino de España. Cuvée: O Poulo. Colour: red. Grapes: Garnacha Tintorera 95%, Palomino 5%. About: literally Nacho’s top wine, being from a high altitude vineyard on clay soils that Nacho recovered and has been bringing back to health since 2014. Particularly concentrated fruit. The wine is also known as Fillo da Pedra, meaning son … Continue reading La Perdida O Poulo
Appellation: Vino de España. Cuvée: O Trancado. Colour: red. Grapes: Garnacha Tintorera 70%, Mencía 30%. About: O Trancado was the name of Nacho’s first vineyard, inherited from his grandmother. Here Garnacha Tintorera is blended with better-known Mencía, the variety native to neighbouring Bierzo. This comes from more than a dozen parcels and is made and … Continue reading La Perdida O Trancado
Appellation: Vino de España. Cuvée: O Mallada. Colour: Red. Grapes: Garnacha Tintorera 70%, Sumoll 30%. About: Garnacha Tintorera is another name for Alicante Bouschet, poorly thought-of elsewhere but much loved by Nacho who shows what can be done with native grapes tended with love and care. Here blended with Sumoll, the Catalan variety much loved … Continue reading La Perdida O Mallada
Appellation: Vino de España. Cuvée: Proscrito. Colour: pink. Grapes: Palomino 90%, Garnacha Tintorera 10%. About: an extraordinary pink wine, more of a pale red, from two usually poorly thought-of grapes, here magically transformed into a wine that finds a balance between gravity and levity. Vines Location: from more than a dozen parcels around Serdur and … Continue reading La Perdida Proscrito
Appellation: Vino de España. Cuvée: O Pando Godello Orange. Colour: Orange. Grapes: Godello. About: a totally different tone for Nacho, this is a skin-fermented wine from the region’s most famous grape. The name comes from the first vineyard Nacho worked. The grapes now come from other vineyards as well but all in similar location, all … Continue reading La Perdida O Pando Godello Orange
Appellation: Vino de España. Cuvée: A Chaira. Colour: White. Grapes: Dona Branca (known as Doña Blanca in Spain). About: Dona Branca is known as Doña Blanca in Spain and it’s a perfect introduction to Nacho’s style. This single varietal wine from a typically under-rated local variety is limpid and vegetal, yet lingers and persists, and … Continue reading La Perdida A Chaira
Appellation: Vino de España. Cuvée: Malas Uvas. Colour: White. Grapes: Palomino 80%, Dona Branca 20%. About: from varietals that can appear neutral at first then marvellously, mysteriously expressive, under-rated by most, highly rated by Nacho and the proof is in the wine. Vines Location: from several parcels of vines near the monastery of Ermitas and … Continue reading La Perdida Malas Uvas
Who: Nacho Gonzalez. What: Vino. Where: Larouco, Valdeorras, Galicia, Spain. When: Since 2013. The Story La Perdida of course means “the lost” and refers to the fact that the vineyards are all tiny parcels, and quite hidden, in more ways than one; they’re off the beaten track and sometimes the other vegetation, grasses and other … Continue reading La Perdida
