Bodegas Virgen del Galir Regueiron Godello 2020
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Straw-yellow color with a clean and brilliant greenish tinge. The nose is intense yet delicate, complex with floral, mineral and herbal notes. Fresh on the palate with a persistent finish.
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James Suckling
White peach, apple, pear, crushed stone, smoked almond, asphalt and dried spice on the nose. It’s medium-to full-bodied with bright acidity and a spicy, creamy palate. Long and concentrated.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The white 2020 Regueirón was produced with Godello grapes from a vineyard in the village of Éntoma that gives the wine its name and is mentioned on the label, a 0.42-hectare plot that was planted 25 years ago and contains a small percentage of Treixadura and Albariño on slate soil. It fermented in four 500-liter oak barrels and matured in those barrels for one year, followed by two months in foudre. It's perfumed and floral, nuanced and elegant, with subtle notes of spice and flint. It's medium-bodied, dry and fresh, balanced and serious. It's very expressive and feels very balanced and with the stuffing to develop and improve in bottle.
The Virgen del Galir winery is located in Éntoma, a small village in Orense. It has been part of the CVNE family since 2018. The Galir Valley falls under the Valdeorras DO (designation of origin). The winery’s philosophy is to make wines that reflect the values of the land whilst respecting local traditions. This begins with the winery’s name, a tribute to Our Lady of Galir, the protector of the region’s vineyards.
In recent years, several vineyards have been replanted and recovered in the Galir and Bibei Valleys to produce a complete range of villa (“terroir”), parcela (plot of land) and gran cru wines. The white wines of Virgen del Galir are made with grapes from the Galir Valley, an area with a lot of slate and vineyards at high altitude. The red wines are harvested from vines grown on granite soil, from plots in the Galir and Bibei Valleys.
The Virgen del Galir team is young and dynamic, closely linked to the environment and traditions of this place, with extensive knowledge of the area. Miguel Tienda and the oenologist Jorge Navascues are responsible for heading up the team and contribute their extensive experience in the wine sector and their great ideas to a project with a promising future.
Godello is native to northwest Spain and has experienced a major revival in the last 20 years. Godello wines are typically sleek and lightly creamy in texture. Barrel fermentation and lees stirring are typical in Valdeorras, Spain where the grape comes from. These winemaking techniques make the most of Godello's inherent structure and help bring out its lovely floral character. Somm Secret—DNA profiling says that Spain’s Godello is actually identical to the Portugese grape variety Gouveio, which grows throughout the Douro and Dão (where it used to mistakenly be called Verdelho).
Just to the south of Bierzo, the steeply terraced Valdeorras Spanish wine region is a respected source of both red and white wines. Garnacha Tintorera (Alicante Bouschet) and Mencía are the principal red varieties while Godello and Palomino compose the majority of this region's whites.