SPAIN
BIERZO
BODEGAS CASTROVENTOSA, RAÚL PÉREZ, BIERZO
Bodegas y Viñedos Castro Ventosa is a winery located in Valtuille de Abajo. To talk about Castro Ventosa is to talk about a region, but mostly about people who are rooted to the land. These are people with their own style, dignified and discrete, detached from ephemeral disruptions, fashions and trends, simply in tune with the cyclical and monotonous rhythm of the seasons and the vineyard. At Castro Ventosa, life gravitates around the land, the vineyard, the grape and wine which can only be created as natural consequence of doing things right at every stage.

CASTRO VALTUILLE GODELLO
Ref.: V0004892 Vintage: 2020
Grape Varietals: Godello

CASTRO VALTUILLE JOVEN
Ref.: V0000128 Vintage: 2021
Grape Varietals: Mencía

CASTRO VENTOSA VALTUILLE
Ref.: V0004949 Vintage: 2020
Grape Varietals: Mencía

VALTUILLE CEPAS CENTENARIAS
Ref.: V0004893 Vintage: 2019
Grape Varietals: Mencía

BODEGAS Y VIÑEDOS RAÚL PÉREZ, BIERZO AND GALICIA
Raúl Pérez is serious about his work but doesn’t take himself too seriously. An accomplished and respected winemaker, he is also a person with great generosity of spirit, always open to collaborate and share his ideas with others. Raul believes that wine is made in the vineyard but is undeterred from trying a multitude of strategies to find that vineyard’s voice. As a winemaker, he seeks to capture the full potential of each site he works with; he has an uncanny knack for knowing what a vineyard needs and how to treat that vineyard’s grapes once in the winery to achieve their greatest expression. Bodegas y Viñedos Raúl Pérez produces rare, handcrafted, artisanal wines from varieties such as Mencía, Bastardo, Prieto Picudo, Godello, Albariño and others from the Northwestern DOs of Spain.
Valtuille Village-Ultreia

ULTREIA GODELLO
Ref.: V0004183 Vintage: 2020
Grape Varietals: Godello

ULTREIA LA CLAUDINA
Ref.: V0000759 Vintage: 2018
Grape Varietals: Godello, Field blend

RARA AVIS
Ref.: V0000516. Vintage: 2010
Grape Varietals: Albarin

LA CLAVE
Ref.: V0004155 Vintage: 2020
Grape Varietals: Mencía, Garnacha Tintorera

ULTREIA SAINT JACQUES
Ref.: V0001321 Vintage: 2020
Grape Varietals: Mencía and others

ULTREIA VALTUILLE
Ref.: V0000624 Vintage: 2012
Grape Varietals: Mencía

LA TENTACIÓN
Ref.: V0000760 Vintage: 2012
Grape Varietals: Pinot Noir
Valtuille Villages-La Vizcaina

LA DEL VIVO
Ref.: V0001314 Vintage: 2021
Grape Varietals: Godello, Field blend

LAS GUNDINAS
Ref.: V0001315 Vintage: 2020
Grape Varietals: Mencía, Field blend

LA POULOSA
Ref.: V0001316 Vintage: 2020
Grape Varietals: Mencía, Field blend

LA VITORIANA
Ref.: V0004180 Vintage: 2020
Grape Varietals: Mencía, Field blend

EL RAPOLAO
Ref.: V0004181 Vintage: 2020
Grape Varietals: Mencía, Field blend
Galicia collaborations

EL PECADO (Ribeira Sacra)
Ref.: V0000222 Vintage: 2020
Grape Varietals: Mencía and others

LA PENITENCIA (Ribeira Sacra)
Ref.: V0000327 Vintage: 2020
Grape Varietals: Mencía and others

SKETCH (Rias Baixas)
Ref.: V0000584 Vintage: 2021
Grape Varietals: Albariño


CASA AURORA, GERMÁN BLANCO, BIERZO ALTO (VILLA DE ALBARES)
Casa Aurora is an outcome of high altitude, organic vine growing in the Upper Bierzo area. This is a personal project of German Blanco, whose family history brought him back to the village of his grandparents – Villa de Albares.
Weather difficulties and the mining boom (coal and gold) made people abandon wine production in the area. The vine growers who remained are now striving to recover, and Casa Aurora is at the center of this revival. German works with 3 vineyards planted with array of local grape varieties many decades ago. The vineyards total 5 hectares, so production is very small. The vines are in the villages of Albares de la Ribera and San Esteban. The soil here is mostly clayey (red clay with a high content of iron) with some sand and stones on the surface.

LA NAVE
Ref.: V0004578 Vintage: 2021
Grape Varietals: Mencía and others

CLOS PEPIN
Ref.: V0004600 Vintage: 2020
Grape Varietals: Mencía, Garnacha tintorera, Palomino, Portuguesa, Garnacha

LA GALAPANA
Ref.: V0000837 Vintage: 2021
Grape Varietals: Mencía

VALLE DEL RIO
Ref.: V0000947 Vintage: 2020
Grape Varietals: Garnacha Tintorera, Garnacha, Mencía, Palomino

POULA
Ref.: V0000836 Vintage: 2021
Grape Varietals: Mencía, Garnacha Tintorera, Portuguesa and 40% Palomino, Godello, Dona Blanca