Description
This is one of Spain's greatest and most famous white wines. Initially focused, precise and linear, it possesses the potential to broaden out to gorgeous complexity: suggesting quince, apricot, fresh herbs, wet stones, woodsmoke, struck flint and a plethora of other nuances. It can improve over at least 7-9 years from vintage. Quintessential Galician, Emilio Rojo, having trained and worked as an engineer, returned to his homeland and in 1987, began the process of restoring and reviving a small (1.2 hectare), family vineyard plot in the Avia Valley. This cool yet sheltered, east-facing, slow-ripening site is planted mostly with Treixadura, and some Godello, Lado and Louriera, and has a track record of making wine of sublime freshness, texture and complexity.