Certified
Organic, Other
Type
Grower, Maker
Certified
Organic, Other
Type
Grower, Maker
About
I am an Independent Vigneron in Cacabelos in the northwest of Spain. I studied agricultural engineer and I started to work in different cellars in Bierzo. An old winemaker of my teach me the job of winemaker when I was 22 yeards old now I am 45. I make wine only from my family organic vineyards since 2012 in Bierzo appellation Spain but I am not in the appellation. These are my organic farming strategies:
• Only use organic grapes
• Only use nature yeasts
• Unfiltered wine
• Don´t use industrial cold
• Don’t use any additives or coadyuvants
• Don’t use sulfites added our wine has less than 10 mg/L of total sulfites
My family wineyards are located in two different areas, the total area of vines is 3 Ha. Steep slopes at medium altitude in the vicinity of Pieros location right on The Way of Santiago around 550 m and in the vicinity of Canedo around 750 m I have 2,4 Ha sorrounded by chesnut, oak and pine forest. My family forest has 12 Ha .
I like to read old books about wineyards and wine thaks to It I recovered a old variey called Pan y Carne in 2020.
My total production is about 10.000 bottles:
Puerta del Viento Mencía 2022
Extinto (Pan y Carne) 2021
Godello Bajo Velo 2022 (fermented and ageing in amphoras from Maestro Padilla)
JAJA (Doña Blanca) orange wine with damajuanas
YEYA 2022, rosé wine with 7 varyeties (Godello, Doña Blanca, Palomino, Malvasia, Mencía, Garnacha tinta and pan y carne)
PET NAT 2022, old palomino with doñablanca and pan y carne.
Certifications
Certified - Organic by CAECYL (18/11/2023, 3107 / 012022CL)
Certified - by Vin Méthode Nature (9/11/2022)
Contact Details
C/SAN JUAN Nº51
Arborbuena (Cacabelos),
24547
León
Spain
Technical information
Wine
This grower-maker grows all their own grapes.
- Size of their farm: 12 (ha)
- Size of farm under vine: 3 (ha)
- All grapes are dry-farmed. None of the vineyards are irrigated.
- All grapes are harvested manually.
Average production of wine: 10000 (btl)