Adega Algueira Cortezada Ribeira Sacra 2025
Adega Algueira Cortezada Ribeira Sacra
Region: Ribeira Sacra, Galicia, Spain
Vintage: 2025
Bottle size: 75cl
Grape: Albariño, Godello, Treixadura
ABV: 13%
Bright yellow straw colour in the glass. An expressive nose of white stone fruits of peach and apricot, alongside herbal notes of fennel, and mineral undertones. On the palate, it is fresh and zesty and balanced with an elegant mid-palate and a subtle pithy, bitterness on the finish.
This is a single vineyard wine, made with grapes from the state of Cortezada, in Abeleda, Ourense. Well situated on south-west facing slopes and the mediterranean microlamte is cooled with an Atlantic influence from the base of the site, with the breeze of the Edo River. A combination of granite, quartz and gneiss soils. Vine trained under trellis system, under sustainable viticulture.
In the winery the grapes are mechanically de-stemmed and pressed in bunches, allowing spontaneous fermentation to occur at 13ºC in stainless steel tanks with it’s own yeast. The juice undergoes malolactic fermentation without any lees ageing or wood contact to preserve the purity of fruit. Aged in steel for six months before bottling.
Adega Algueira is a jewel in Ribeira Sacra’s magnificent crown. Described by Luis Gutiérrez as "one of the region’s leading producers with incredible vineyard holdings", this family-run winery is internationally recognised for producing refined wines from breathtaking vineyards perched on steep slopes that plunge towards the Sil River. While viticulture in Ribeira Sacra dates back to the Romans, phylloxera, economic depression and civil war left the terraced vineyards abandoned and worthless. In 1980, the year Fernando González Riveiro came to the region, it was a complete ruin. Convinced of its potential, he began the painstaking work to restore some of these forgotten vineyards. Years later, in 1996, the same year the Ribeira Sacra appellation was created, he built a winery in the renowned subregion of Amandi.