Appellation: none
Cuvée: Colleita with number according to vintage
Colour: Red
Grapes: Roughly Caíño longo 49%, Brancellao 37%, Sousón 10%, Merenzao 2% and Carabuñenta 2%
About: Both Colleita red and white achieve the same brilliant balance of refreshing lightness with complexity and intensity of fruit. And both are from native varieties that Diego and his brothers have planted on this magical hillside. Colleita simply means vintage and each version is numbered since the first commercial release Nº 6 in 2018. 2021 will be Nº 9.
Vines
Location: the Eira de Mouros high above the Avia river and town of Ribadavia
Size: 7 ha
Age: planted in 2005, 2008, 2009, 2013
Soils: a complex mosaic of mainly granite with slate and schist and quartz, a different colour and texture everywhere you look
Exposition: south-west
Altitude: 400-500m
Training: on wire
Farming philosophy: certified organic with a light touch, no ploughing, just scratching the surface and allowing cover crops to grow
Average yield hl/ha: 40
Average: cool and often wet, with Atlantic influence
Winemaking
All varieties are fermented together in a restored chestnut tank with about 40% whole bunches. Temperature lightly controlled to avoid exceeding 23ºC. Ferment usually takes 3 weeks. With wild yeast and no addition of sulfites. Aged for 9 months before bottling unfined, very lightly filtered.
Vintage Notes 2021
A very cool and wet year when the sun hardly shone and the grapes really struggled to ripen and also to deal with mildew. Yet the results are great, very fresh, very pure wines with good fruit intensity.
Date harvested:
Yield hl/ha: 20
Date bottled: 2022-08
Bottles produced: 6000
Alcohol %: 10,4
SO2 Total: < 20
Tasting: 2022-11-18 piercing aromas of crunchy red and black berry fruit, cassis, cherry to the fore, then a sappy, crunchy, juicy palate, pure and elegant, with a very fine pronounced backbone of tannin and long, sustained finish. Both polished and raw at the same time. A total pleasure. 2022-11-25 after one week open, more plum, rose, some honey, still fresh, still a pleasure.