A collaboration between wine journalist Marcial Pita and award-winning 4th generation enologist and viticulturist, Felicísimo Pereira, Bodegas El Paraguas began in 2007 with their first release in 2011. Located in Galicia’s Ribeiro, where the climate is in a transitional zone of mostly cold Atlantic winds with a warm continental influence, they produce wines led with Treixadura and a supporting cast of other whites, Godello and Albariño on two granite parcels and one schist, with varying altitudes. All grapes are hand-harvested, fermented with indigenous cultured yeasts and controlled temperatures in 600L French oak barrels and steel tanks. The wines don’t go through malolactic fermentation, so they are filtered and fined.