Goyo Garcia Viadero, Garcia Georgieva Blanco 2022750ml

Varieties: 80% Albillo, 20% Malvasía

Source: From organically farmed centenarian bush vines near Zazuar, in the eastern portion of Ribera del Duero, planted on sandy alluvial soils at 900m elevation.

Vinification Method: The grapes were hand harvested, destemmed, and pressed with a pneumatic basket press into stainless steel vats along with the skins. The juice macerated and fermented with skins for 10-15 days, then racked off to finish fermentation and aging in tank until the following summer. The finished wine was bottled unfined, unfiltered and without added SO2.

Goyo’s roots in Ribera del Duero run very deep: he has been working in the area since before the D.O. was established, and his family has been working in viticulture for hundreds of years. His approach makes him a “black sheep” of this region, as he has rejected additives, new oak, and intense extraction which are characteristic of the region’s wines, especially in these last few decades. Instead, greatly inspired by natural winemakers like Pierre Overnoy from the Jura, Goyo began farming without chemicals and making wines in a style more like his grandparents than his neighbors. Beginning in 2003 with 3 old-vine parcels, he has charted his own course in the increasingly industrial and commercial landscape of Ribera del Duero, embracing centenarian vines and traditional methods of winemaking in equal measure. Goyo’s approach in the cellar is delicate: all grapes are completely destemmed by hand, pressed gently, and fermentations are slow in their ancient, cold cellar. For the wines that age in barrel, he employs exclusively old, finely grained barriques from Bordeaux. Most wines are bottle-aged for at least a year before release, and sulfur and other additives are never used. Goyo’s careful process produces wines of striking sincerity and elegance that communicate a strong sense of place and simultaneously fit any definition of “natural wine.”