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 the fruit has terrific energy.
Vines
Location: from several parcels near Serdur in the heart of the Valdeorras that Nacho has been working for 5 years.
Size ha: less than 1.
Age: vines planted around 1940.
Soils: granite.
Exposition: south.
Altitude: 500 to 600m.
Training: gobelet (or vaso).
Farming: organic, by hand, leaving the soils touched as little.
Average yield hl/ha: 20.
Climate: Atlantic, cold in winter, hot in summer, likelihood of fog and humid conditions all year.
Winemaking
The harvest is de-stemmed by hand and grapes are macerated on their skins for 5 days before being very gently pressed and the wine moved to one small stainless steel tank and one small amphora. There the wines stay, under a light flor, until bottling un-filtered and without any added sulfites during the whole process.
Vintage Notes 2017
Yield hl/ha: 10.
Harvested: mid September.
Bottles produced: 1,000.
Date bottled: 2018-02.
Alcohol %: 11.8.
SO2 Total: <20.
Tasting: soft and gentle, vegetal water, spicy peach fruit, floral, herbal character, ethereal energy.
Vintage Notes 2018
Yield hl/ha: 10.
Harvested: mid September.
Bottles produced: 1,000.
Date bottled: 2019-02.
Alcohol %: .
SO2 Total: 0 added.
Tasting: .
Vintage Notes 2019
Yield hl/ha: 15.
Harvested: mid September.
Bottles produced: 1,000.
Date bottled: 2020-03.
Alcohol %: 12.
SO2 Total: 0 added.
Tasting: from tank 2020-02 intense, complex, rich, sanguine, iron, peppery spice.