Terras Gauda Albarino San Campio 2009

A Bodegas Terras Gauda white wine

(SL0000010287)

Our price £11.95 (inc VAT)

Minimum order quantity is 6 bottles.

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Country	Spain
Region	Rias Baixas
Class	Rias Baixas

Grape	Albarino
Volume	75cl
Style	Fruity but crisp

Albarino wine is considered to be the Spanish "gold" of white wines for its colour and quality. But there's also another theory that connects the wine to the metal--sounds daft but we'll give it a whirl. The Romans originally colonized Galicia for its great mineral wealth, gold in particular; the system that they used for extracting the minerals was the "Terra Montium", which consisted of excavating tunnels, then lighting a fire in them so that they would collapse, and with this system they literally managed to destroy mountains. But to excavate these tunnels they needed to soften the rock and to do so they used none other than vinegar! The origins and applications of Albarino were industrial then; centuries later the vine resurfaces and delicious wines are made As they say locally: "Although they took all the gold at least they left behind Albarino wine." Galicia is the land of percebes (barnacles) and wild horses; here they celebrate the famous "curros" (horse corrals). They round up all the wild horses to brand them and cut their manes; in Galician it is called "a rapa das bestas". There is also a strong Celtic tradition of folk song and bagpipes. The Galician vineyards of Rias Baixas are dominated by the influence of the Atlantic. This is a green, cloudy, damp region of pine, chestnut and oak clad hills with a coastline punctuated by rias (coastal inlets). The region has actually produced wines for many centuries, and by the middle of the 19th century, Galicia boasted 55,000 hectares of vines, although phylloxera and other diseases greatly reduced this amount. The wine scene remained moribund until the 1980s when Albarino, the region's great white grape was "rediscovered" and found to yield excellent quality wines. Allied to this was investment in the technology of cold fermentation and stainless steel that exalted the flavours and aromas of the grape. Rias Baixas - low rivers - is named after the abovementioned fjord-like inlets. It has a markedly Atlantic climate with mild winters, coolish summers, high humidity and elevated rainfall. The wines of Terras Gauda are located in the subzone of O Rosal on the terraces that rise steeply above the river Mino which divides Spain from Portugal.

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