Bodegas Avanthia
Avancia Cuvée de O Godello Valdeorras
2019
About this winery
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Product notes
Traditional dry farmed viticulture. Organic Gobelet trained vines. Cultivated completely by hand. Soils: Primarily slate soils intermixed with small quantities of quartz. Mediterranean climate with an Atlantic influence. Very cold winters and very warm hot summers.
Production notes
Hand-harvested and stored in small baskets. 20% of the wine fermented with indigenous yeast in used French oak puncheons and demi-muids (500-600 L. barrels, respectively.) The rest of the wine is fermented in stainless steel. Eight months sur lie in the fermentation vessel (20% French oak, 80% stainless steel) with battonage.
Tasting notes
Cuvee de O Godello expresses the freshest expression of the Valdeorras’ unique slate soils and indigenous clones of Godello. Sur lie ageing and used large format barrel fermentation impart a weight and complexity to Cuvée de O that sets it apart from other young Godellos.