The mother of the wine you send a Christmas recipe: put a few measures of illusion, a pinch of friendship and a little tenderness. Bake the mixture in a spirit patient. Present it wrapped in smiles and accompany him with these melodies from the heart.
The Adega O Casal S.A.T. born in 2000, consisting of five members led by the highest regard with the tradition of the witnesses who feel moved by a great love for the land. The aim of this winery is making a special wine to taste levels starting with the vineyard inherited from ancestors and growing slowly, gently work done by craftsmen, combining traditional knowledge with the necessary technological advance.
The Adega da Pinguela is a small winery with a vocation to be. It has a limited production, but is more than just a winery, is an expression of terroir in wine come true Ventura, a name that put the wine in honor of his grandfather, who emigrated to Cuba. The winery is located in privileged surroundings and is only found in this charming landscape overlooking the Valley of A Rúa. Highlight the part exacavada in the mountains, the cave where located the wooden casks for aging wine. In the near future they intend to seek originality and differentiation of their wines are synthesized in the expression of the terrain and get to reach the expressiveness of the vineyard.
Did you know the owner of the winery Chan de Ouro is one of the greatest expressions of the winemaking tradition of Valdeorras, since he likes to make the whole process that entails the production of wine?
A Rúa's winery Alan de Val has launched A Costiña, the only wine made exclusively from grapes Brancellao that exists in the market. Backed by Valdeorras Guarantee of Origin, this is a wine made Brancellao, that after a passage through French oak barrels for four months, has relied on hold a year before going on sale.
Final production of A Costiña 2007 is 1,000 bottles, which have been released for a higher price to 30 euros. It comes in a burgundy bottle of 75 cl, in an individual case.
According to the tasting notes, wine is a "full-bodied, well covered, bright red and purple trim. Sweet aroma to red fruits jam and licorice, with hints of violet flowers and almond blossom. In mouthfeel is broad, good acidity and well integrated tannins with a long, mineral aftertaste. It is a wine "with a personality that will evolve well in bottle over the next five years" and is presented to accompany perfect 'all kinds of meats, especially stews and game, as experts say.
This new website has a dynamic and interative size which will incorporate a programming for the whole year 2010.
Dovaldeorras.tv is available in three languages (galician, spanish and english) and moreover it has an agile structure.
Here we can find a complete menu about the Guarantee of Origin and the region of Valdeorras with information concerning the Regulatory Council, the weather, the types of grapes, the wines, the soils, the wine cellars and the cycle of the wine. More information about the own region of Valdeorras, its craftwork, “fiestas” and the gastronomy with recipes to pairing Mencia and Godello is also available.
All this is supplemented with a visual structure where the videographic imaging developes an important role.
In the rural Valdeorras, just like in the rest of Galicia, and many parts of the world, the western calendar, is based on the nature's cycles. In this way, the wine, as well as other crops, has its own cycle with the seasons of the year. Here it is in this video, the cycle of wine corresponding to the wine harvest, in Autumn time.
Related celebrations date back to the days when wine was a bridge between Gods and men. So that in Valdeorras the cultural oral tradition is still alive and that is the reason why, older harvesters while vintaging, relieve their fatigue with popular songs of oral tradition.
Despite this times where we live in rural depopulation around the world, it is a pleasure and fortune to see in this region that new generations of boys and girls follow the traditions of their grandparents going to harvest with them.
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Valdeorras is, in itself , the mother of the wine:
because there the Romans planted the first vineyards
for being the seed of different but at the same time unique names Godello, Dona Branca, Mencía, Merenzao, Brancellao, Souson, Negreda, Grao Negro...
because its ancestors, from the ancient times, gave shape to the vineyards with their hands , till they became a part of themselves,
because testify the birth of an Origin Denomination, which was one of the first in Spain
because in itself, each stone is placed, and every piece of land contains milenary different names because wine growerings and owners of the wine cellars swing , pamper their wines with the background and the unique memories from the microcosmos in each vineyards
because Valdeorras, was capable of sintetice ,with its essence, the sincretism from the wine all along the time, making us feel
Today we know the answer to the question yesterday on the A-DI-VIÑAS.El invention that marked the birth of A Rúa was the arrival of the railroad Valdeorras, inaugurated by King Alfonso XII in 1883.
Today we know the answer to the question yesterday on the A-DI-WINE. The material used to Cork is part of the silicone to be a topic of great controversy in the wine world.
Did you know that the bottles have also been used to launch the craft tradition?
The ritual involves tying a bottle of champagne on a rope, a person picks up and throws the recipeinte against the hull of the boat (bow). Sometimes it takes several releases until it explodes.
On 27 July 1945 was accorded the D.O. Valdeorras by ministerial decree and declared protected designation of origin, the geographical name of Valdeorras and is the Regulatory Council.
We can not forget that the maturation of the wine continued in the bottle. In the well-corked bottle with a cork healthy, there is a decrease that develops the bouquet of wine, harmonizing and rounding. Since the eighteenth century, the sense of functionality, manageability, custom and prejudice have played more baroque forms and have defined a practical and logical lines for bottles that are traded.
The Castle is located in the village of Bolo, and its tower is visible from long distances. It is estimated that its construction began in the twelfth century, but suffered extensive damage in the riots of the Irmandiños and rebuilt in the fifteenth century. Rehabilitated a few years ago, today can admire the Torre da Tribute of 20 meters, the remains of the interior and exterior walls, the courtyard and the well.
Today we know the answer to the question yesterday on the A-DI-VIÑOS. The country still using the bottle design for soft drinks carbonated beverage ramune is Japan.
The first American grapevine grafting was done in 1904 Vilamartín by Justin Fernandiz, who created the first nurseries and development achieved much fame and who provided most of grafts that were used to reconstruct the vineyards of Ourense.
In the finish of twuenty century the use of glass bottles was replaced with plastic containers of no return. However, the wine is still using glass bottles, in most cases.
In a natural extremely careful environment is Xagoaza Monastery whose construction is the eighteenth century. The building, which impresses with its beauty and simplicity, is made of stone and is built in a U-shape around a rectangular inner cloister. On the ground floor of the construction is a modern wine cellar, vineyards loa which are also located in the monumental area.
In the year 1882 with the invasion of phylloxera, there is the ruin of the vineyards of Valdeorras. Phylloxera was a plague from Portugal that in a few years destroyed more than 1,000 hectares of vineyards.
In 1872 a manufacturer of soft drink patented a bottle for carbonated drinks. The bottle contained a label and a glass stopper in the neck. The bottles were filled upside down, and the pressure of carbon dioxide into the bottle forcing the plug against the bill, sealing.
Mencia variety produces wines of strong raspberry color, intense smells of fruit, but also delicate flowers, have good dose alcohol, acidity and, as godello, excellent potential for aging. Grape is a very responsive with an optimum cultivation in mountain areas, which makes understanding their presence on terraces, in the oldest vineyards, and a trellis for new planting.
Although the variety Godello existed since Roman times, will be in 1877 when it reaches full recognition in the National Wine Show, which states that occurs in Ourense where calledWhite Godello.
Industrial use of Cork was following the Discovery of the wine of champagne (or sparkling wine) in the second half of the seventeenth Century by a benedictine monk, that implying the need to acquire other basic elements, that is to say, the glass bottles to contain and its blockage sealed to prevente evaporation of the liquid, which will facilitate the conversion into a growth industry, extending to other European countries.
The Godello Variety, specific of Valdeorras, is an early grape and ripening very determined, it characterized by acios very small, of medium grapes elliptically shaped, yellow green color and with seeds.Today wines are made of very good quality and highly aromatic, with great capacity for aging in barrel and good evolution in bottle. It is adapted to dry soils, and higher quality occurs on slopes of medium fertility.
Did you know that in Vilamartín de Valdeorras to take place every year the first Saturday of August the rute of the Vilamartín caves, in which can come and taste their wines?
Valdeorras is a region where proliferating the caves, kind of underground cellars where wine is stored. Jose Miramontes pointed in the end of eighteenth century as appearing these caves (said) "a little provision has been noticed in this wine Negreda to keep him after the heat of summer looming, have been specified their growers to build cellars groundwater or caves where they save him from perdition. "
It was in England, where was produced the first specific wine bottle thick walls. Probably made in the workshops of the former buccaneer Sir Kenelm Digby, which appears in history as the putative father, and with a seal dating from 1657.
Portomourisco is a parish belonging to the municipality of Petín (Valdeorras), has the peculiarity of being a very rocky place situated on the banks of Xares. So to think that its first part comes from portu, by reference to a port or river pass, the word mourisco may come from mor , "stone", in response to the rocky nature of the place, perfectly visible in the cut made by the channel river. Against this we can say that in the Valdeorras region the 55% of the names are Latino, three Arabs and the rest are pre-Roman.
Did you know that the Japanese have about 25 years researching the yew bark for the treatment of cancer and that about 5 years ago they asked the Xunta can the Teixedal of Casaio rent?
After the abandonment of the region by the Romans and the arrival of the Swabians and Visigoths, in times of Leovigildo and Recaredo, and after the union political and religious of the peninsula, the region had to live a period of peace and splendor. In the land of "Gueurres" coin money was reached three times-VITERO (603-610), Sisebuto (612-621) and Suintila (621-631) – ceccas in which thwey were located in: Valencia GUEURRES-Sil - , PINCIO-clamp-and-Larouco LAURUCLO. These coins were inscribed images related to grapes, by their importance in the vineyards in Valdeorras.
In the end of the eighteen century is when appear the cylindrical bottle as we know it today. This type of bottle contributed, in addition of greater resistance, the posibility that it could be placed in a horizontal position, facilitating its storage and preservation to always keep the cork moist.
The Teixedal of Carballeda of Valdeorras is a natural gewm because it is the only endemic yew forest in Europe. It consists of more than 400 pieces of yew, many of them centuries old and some over one thousand years old.
Photos of José Félix Romero Ibarra María Olano Espinosa
Referring to the question yesterday in our section A-DI-VIÑOS now know the answer.
The white wine is aging earlier in glass bottles because the green light stops better ultraviolet and violet radiation passes little blue and yellow lot, retaining many others for what wine is more protected.
Did you know that the Camino de Santiago also run by the region of Valdeorras? It's called Winter Road, that parts of the French Way in Ponferrada and, to avoid the tough climb by Pedrafita (especially in winter with snow), so as enjoy of quiet path, to link with the Camino de la Plata in Lalín.
Did you know that the vintners containers of clay, ceramic, pewter, crockery or albastra alter by its own decoration and waterproofing, the own composition of the wine
From the medieval, the cultivation of the vineyards was imposing dominantly in the landscape of Valdeorras to the point that mid-century XVIII, according to the Cadastre of Creek, it notes the existence of vineyards in almost all villages in the region. Moreover according to the inventory and survey of 1789 was accounted for more than 200 gardens dedicates to the cultivation of vineyards.
In the 1640, a member of the British Court Sir Kenelm Digby, inaugurated the first factory of bottles that used hul coal in its ovens, and although he wasn't the first use the technique if was the first to patent and therefore he is who was tradicionally credited this invention.
The Shrine of the Ermidas is the most important Marian shrine in the whole region. Old seminary, is a monumental architectural complex and of great relevance. It was declared a Interesting Cultural Benefit (BIC) in 2006.
Located in a privileged intrinsic keeps frills to a land that since the arrival of the Romans dedicated to the cultivation of vines. That's why the columns posuer grapes.
In the Middle Ages, the tradition of planting vineyards was continued by the Benedictines monks. Between the centuries XI and XII cited 40 documents in which consigned the existence of vineyards, this gives us a clear shows of the importance that this cultivation was acquiring in Valdeorras. Besides referred to vat, vines and winery so as to necessary accesories to the wine elaboration.
The Adega da Pinguela is a small winery with a vocation to be. It has a limited production, but is more than just a winery, is an expression of terroir in wine come true Ventura, a name that put the wine in honor of his grandfather, who emigrated to Cuba. The winery is located in privileged surroundings and is only found in this charming landscape overlooking the Valley of A Rúa. Highlight the part exacavada in the mountains, the cave where located the wooden casks for aging wine. In the near future they intend to seek originality and differentiation of their wines are synthesized in the expression of the terrain and get to reach the expressiveness of the vineyard.
Did you know that the Adega Avelina S.A.T. has a restaurant in which they serve wine from the cellar?
The Godello Variety, specific of Valdeorras, is an early grape and ripening very determined, it characterized by acios very small, of medium grapes elliptically shaped, yellow green color and with seeds.Today wines are made of very good quality and highly aromatic, with great capacity for aging in barrel and good evolution in bottle. It is adapted to dry soils, and higher quality occurs on slopes of medium fertility.
The Shrine of the Ermidas is the most important Marian shrine in the whole region. Old seminary, is a monumental architectural complex and of great relevance. It was declared a Interesting Cultural Benefit (BIC) in 2006.
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