Fazenda Augalevada - 2022 Areas de Rei, Branco
Price: $39.00
Size: 750ml
Availability:
24+ in stock
Type of Wine: White
Grape(s): 100% Dona Branca
Style: High acid, Mineral, Medium Body
GROWER OVERVIEW
Iago Garrido may be destined to become one of Spain’s most influential winegrowers. In 2014 this former professional soccer player buried an amphora filled with Treixadura in the middle of his granite vineyard inside Ribeiro’s Avia River Valley. Initially convinced he had made a mistake with the discovery of a flor yeast veil, he later realized this errant shot actually hit a vein of gold that went on to define the direction of his wines. What makes Iago’s wines special is not only that he welcomes the influence of flor, or that he is committed to biodynamic practices in his cellar and the vineyards he owns and the ones he works directly himself, and to only using a minuscule dose of sulfur in his wines, it’s his razor-sharp attention to detail coupled with his openness to take in the ideas and opinions of others. His creative range is focused on indigenous Galician varieties with many different bottlings.
VINEYARD DETAILS
Áreas de Rei is sourced from 80-year-old vines of Dona Branca, planted on granite bedrock and topsoil at altitudes exceeding 450m in the Monterrei D.O.
CELLAR NOTES
Natural fermentation in old oak at low temperatures and is aged for 10 months, partially under flor, in ancient 500-600L French and American oak barrels. Sulfites are added only at bottling, and the wine is unfined and unfiltered.