Monday, December 24, 2012

Merry Christmas!!

The Regulatory Council of D.O. Valdeorras, the winemakers and the entire team of "the mother of the wine"  wish you  Merry Christmas .

Thursday, December 6, 2012

Meet the new wineries that presenting their videos at the DO Valdeorras web


Christmas is coming and from The mother of wine we are pleased to offer you three new videos of the Valdeorras wineries that, through the Web site of the Regulatory Council, will present you the excellence of their work.

So that you may know a little better these wineries, we go with the video and a brief description of their work:

Winery DBERNA


Ago today more than a century, Manuel Guitián put their first plantations on the sunny slopes of Córgomo, thus starting a family tradition that reaches today.

Manuel Guitián taught his son José and this tought  his son, Ramon Guitián, care of the plantations.Today, is the son of the latter, Berna Guitián with his wife, who wanted to continue this long family tradition of winemaking, through the creation of a winery for the development of production of these own vineyards, located in the Córgomo slopes.

DBERNA winery is equipped with the latest technologies winemaking, where applying new production techniques, combined with technology and family tradition, it gets a magnificent quality in its Godello and Mencia wines that are a true reflection of the Valdeorras quality seal .


Adega Jose Aristegui


Adega Jose Aristegui is a signature wines winery and with a near implementation which began operating in 2012 with initial production of about 6,000 bottles.

In its first year, has achieved significant awards from some of the most prestigious nationwide competitions of new wines. Done that catapulted it, immediately, to have a important presence also in the international sector.

In developing its wines: José Aristegui Mencia, José Aristegui Godello and Traste, the winery use a carefully process to select the grape varieties in the centenarians plots for the vinification.


Bodega Roandi


The Family Moral in their 4th generation of winemakers, assumes the project of founding Roandi Winery. This latest generation of the family, grown with innovative flair while respecting tradition, are aware of the possibilities of autochthonous Galician  strains coupages and in this careful balance, endow their wines with a distinctly and  unique character typical of the Galician red varieties .

 The vineyards sit on slopes of 525 m. of altitude on slate soils and clayey nature. These vineyards are composed of ancestral strains, mixed with the conversion of 16 hectares of a Galician noble varieties wineyard and, with a balanced compendium, endow to their wines with a large set of complex feelings, different and unique. With this, Roandi makes a wines of high common sense, based on respect for the earth and ways to work it inherited following the traditional line of ancestors.



Tuesday, November 27, 2012

The DO Valdeorras apellation wines are already in Brussels

 Yesterday began the first of two presentations that  Regulatory Council and wineries DO Valdeorras held in Brussels, surrounded by a large halo of expectation, which has overcome the best expectations for these events.

At 11:00 pm yesterday, the Hotel Meridien received a Valdeorras delegation  formed by the Regulatory Council and eleven wineries representation, which showed the excellence of the 2011 harvest at a large number of Belgian professionals.

In a ceremony that lasted until 17:00 pm, the main wine professionals in Belgium not want to miss the excellence of each trendiest wines in the international wine scene and, with a nearly full room, they had able to ratify the great expectation given by the most prestigious competitions in Belgium and the Netherlands to these wines.

If the professional sector played yesterday, today will be the turn of the high institutions and the public in general, in a ceremony marked by a high demand for assistance and invitations, that expect a full almost total in the Fundación Galicia Europa.

Fundación Galicia Europa is a private, non-profit-making institution created to promote all the actions that favour a closer relationship between Galicia and Europe. It was established in 1988, and it is made up of several public and private Galician entities. It is open to collaboration with all the institutions representing the economic and social Galician life and pursuing the same aims.

Since its creation, the directorship of Fundación Galicia Europa has been functionally linked to the Xunta de Galicia. Nowadays, the department of the regional administration in charge of Fundación Galicia Europa has been the General Directory of Foreign Affairs and EU Relations from the Regional Ministry of Presidency, Civil Service and Justice of the Galician Government. The Galician President is the Director of the Fundación and the General Director of External Affairs is the Managing Director. The reason of this bond is to achieve a better coordination of all the European related actions undertaken by the different Galician sectors.



Thursday, November 22, 2012

Meet the DO Valdeorras wineries that will be present their wines in Brussels

 The Regulatory Council and DO Valdeorras apellation wineries are ending the preparations for its meeting with the international public in Brussels, through two events that will be held on  November 26th and 27th at Meridiem Hotel and central  Galicia - Europa Foundation, respectively.

As announced in previous publications, Brussels is preparing to welcome the Valdeorras wines within a framework which places the Belgian capital as a European benchmark and important market for international marketing and promotion of wine.

It is significant that one of the most important events in this sector in Europe, the "Concours Mondial de Bruxelles", held in this place and, in addiction, several Valdeorras wines looks in their bottles the top medals of this competition

Therefore, in the firm commitment of sharing DO Valdeorras apellation excellence with all audiences, through this double act present the virtues of the 2011 harvest to local professionals, higher institutions and the general public that wishing to attend the event.

Please remember, if you want to participate in the presentation, you can request your invitation by sending an email with your full name to: lamadredelvino@dovaldeorras.tv

Hurry up, today few places are available

While the last fringes are forged, from the Mother Of Wine present the wineries to take part in this meeting.

You can get more information about each one by clicking on its name


Monday, November 19, 2012

The DO Valdeorras appellation wines present their excellence in Brussels

After the successes in New York and Madrid, the Regulatory Council and wineries of the DO Valdeorras appellation continue their promotional campaign and, the 26th and 27th November, will present the international prestige of their wines in Brussels.

In a presentation framework which will run in two events, the wineries and the Regulatory Council will show the credit and the international prestige of their wines to the local public, which have turned the DO Valdeorras appellation wines into a reference of Galicia abroad.

Thus, the first event will be held at Hotel Meridiam, on Monday 26th November, from 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM. This act will be aimed to retailers, restaurateurs and Belgian wine professionals to promotional activities and marketing.

Following the line of sharing the quality of their wines with the great public, on Tuesday 27th November, from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM, the meeting moves to the Galicia-Europa Foundation center. There will be held a presentation target to the highest international institutions and opened to the general public.

Please, remember that if you would like to take part in the event, you shall request your invitation by sending an email, adding your full name in it, to: lamadredelvino@dovaldeorras.tv

To complete this act presentation, we will give you full information of the participating wineries throughout the week, as well as the latest news regarding requests for assistance.
Stay tuned for news, there will be surprises.







Sunday, September 30, 2012

This is how the "new harvest" is made in Valdeorras.



After a year of work and cares in the vineyard, it comes one of the key and more analyzed moments in the modern era of wine, in order to get a wine of the highest quality: the vintage.

The study of the acidity, the sugar and the tannin maturity (polyphenol maturity) determines the optimal time for the harvest, which is made as quickly as possible, during the colder hours of the day (or night), using plastic containers and in small amounts.

In some cases, the harvest is made in different stages and for certain wines or even there is a cautious selection of the grapes.

Once in the winery, where hygiene and cleanliness must be optimal (some people argue that this factor is noticed in the wine quality), the resulting must that has undergone destemming and passed through crusher, begins its fermentation in clean and conveniently desinfected stainlees steel tanks, the material used in Spain for the fermentation and the aging of wines.

However, in recent times there is a trend of processing and preservation as it was in the past in which, without prejudice the proper asepsis required by the winery, wood and concrete are materials widely used either for the beneficial micro oxygenation or the polyphenolic extra contribution.

While more than 100 years ago the wine aging was the result of the necessity of storage and transport, today it is in many cases a universal and democratic obligation that every winemaker must perform in at least some of its wines, if  pretends to compete in the market.

 The calculation and technicity have also occupied an important place in this area, where nothing is left to chance; from the origin and type of wood, to the exact amount of tannin that contains and, of course, the age of the barrels, which should preferably be young and new.

All these criteria have not gone unnoticed for the D.O. Valdeorras appellation, in which its wineries lovingly care the smallest detail; and all this dedication has made possible their presence in the most demanding markets, with wines that have been valued with infinity of international awards and praised by the most prestigious winemakers, critics and sommeliers of the international wine sector.





91 points for "A Coroa Godello 2011" in the "International Wine Cellar" a publication of Stephen Tanzer




  New international recognition of the wine industry for Valdeorras wines that, once more, arrive by the hand of the A Coroa winery, achieving this time 91 points in the publication "International Wine Cellar". This is one of the referential publications in the world wine sector, together with "The Wine Advocate" of Robert Parker.

The prestigious American wine critic Stephen Tanzer, is back to track to elevate the Valdeorras Godello "A Coroa" giving to the wine, this time, 91 points in his bimonthly publication "International Wine Cellar".

The one considered by a large segment of the world of wine experts as the biggest competitor of  Robert Parker, bets once more on Godellos of the D.O. Valdeorras appellation as the reference of the Spanish white wines in the international wine market.

The A Coroa winery, which has just got a major gap in the Swedish monopoly market through System Bolaget chain, continues guaranteeing the quality of its Godello 2011. In this occasion, the cellar gets a new recognition to its achievements that is added to all previous of 2012: gold medal at the "World Wine Selection of Canada", gold medal at the "International Wine Competition of Lyon", silver Medal at the "Competition for the Best Spanish Wines for  USA", the silver "Bacchus" in Spain and the Silver “Acio” in Galicia.

In addition, A Coroa wine has been featured in the The New York Times this year. The magazine has stressed among 20 wines of the Godello variety sold in the USA market the A Coroa wine as the most significant of them all, following the taste of the wine critic Eric Asimov. He has highlighted this as a "deep, tasty and unique wine, with a succulent texture and flavors of tropical fruits", expanding his valuation with the sentence "is a wine that not only represents power, but the power turned into wine".

Stephen Tanzer
 Stephen Tanzer is one of the most famous critics in the United States. He is the director and editor of the bimonthly publication "International Wine Cellars", which was launched in 1985. This uses a rating system based on a wine quality scale that goes from 70 to 100 points, being the major competitor of "The Wine Advocate" publication of Robert Parker. However, the distinguishing feature of both publications lies on a less extravagant line followed by Tanzer.

Tanzer tastes more than 10,000 wines in the United States and abroad annually, and is a professional who spends many months of the year visiting vineyards, wine regions and meeting the producers.

Hence, this rating ratifies the international prestige of the Godellos of the D.O. Valdeorras appellation, and confirms the high quality of these as "some of the most fashionable wines in the international wine sector."





New data on the D.O. Valdeorras appellation harvest confirm the high quality of the grapes




 As the week goes by, more wineries from Valdeorras have joined the picking of the fruit, as well as have shared with us their valuations on the new crop. Despite the fact that the amount of grapes has decreased this year, all them agree with the great quality of the fruit that, for sure, will characterize the 2012 harvest of the D.O. Valdeorras appellation.

Thus, among other wineries of the D.O. Valdeorras appellation, Godeval ushered in the harvest last week, being this the pioneering winery in the recovery of the godello variety in Valdeorras, thanks to its president Horacio Fernández Presa, in 1982.

His valuations of the 2012 grape harvest are about the more than ten days of delay of the picking jobs compared to last year. Also, and due to weather conditions, he points out that there's been a decrease in the quantity of grapes to be harvested this season. Nevertheless, and from the winery, they reaffirm that the quality of the grape is optimal and this will characterize the great wines of the D.O.Valdeorras appellation.

Horacio Fernández also estimates that Godeval will collect about 30 percent less production, but ensures that the quality will be "optimal". Fernández Presa explains that the white variety godello will also increase its acidity this year, considering this as an advantage: "if we are usually between 6.5 to 7, this year we will be in 7. Wines from this region are characterized by acidity, and this is what makes us different."

Horacio Fernández

Godeval harvest, that began yesterday morning in the farms of "La Granja" and "la Graciosa" in Vilamartín, will continue throughout the next ten days or so, and will be marked by a year of unusual weather conditions.

As Horacio Fernández explains, "this harvest is marked since October last year. The value of the soil water is very low because of the lack of rain in those months and the plants were not enough strong to prepare for a new flowering and maturation process."

The godello grape collection on the farms owned by the Godeval winery is made with boxes of 18 kilos, always following the standard of "not carry those grapes that you wouldn't eat to the winery"

 Once in the winery facilities, the process continues with the selection, pressing and fermentation of the must. Despite of this process, winemakers affirm that the base is always in the vid and in the field in which it grows, stating that "the wine is made in the vineyard".








Thursday, September 13, 2012

Valdeorras began the harvest with an excellent grape quality

Photo: Lolita Vázquez (La Voz de Galicia)  - Info Source: La Región

The María Teresa Nuñez Vega winery was the first in starting the picking work in Galicia, last Thursday at 08.00 am.

The vineyards are located in the City Council of Petín and there is where the campaign of the Autonomous Community began.  Leading the works, which will continue throughout the next days, we find the owner of the winery Celestino Naveira. He announced that the grape is of an excellent quality, although the crop is expected to be lower than the previous year.

'There are fewer grapes than last year, a 20% less, but in fact there are more than we were expecting. For sure, all the grapes are excellent ' he stated. Despite the fact that weather conditions led to several days of delay to begin the harvest, these also favored the development of the plants, that could enjoy several days of warm temperatures, ideal for picking the fruit.

The María Teresa Núñez winery works with mencia, alicante and godello varieties. According to Celestino Naveira, this last variety 'mature sooner', reaching 13.5 degrees this year. He also indicated that its production is slightly larger than 30,000 bottles, being of godello variety two out of three.

Video: La Región

The expectations of the winery of Petín coincide totally with those of the Regulatory Council of D.O. Valdeorras appellation. His technical director, Jorge Mazaira, also calculated a 20% decline in production respect the vintage of 2011, when producers in Valdeorras collected about 6.4 million kilos.

The technician of this winemaking organization also indicated that the 'quality of the grape is very good; it rained when rain was needed and it was warm at the right time. These days, temperatures of 30 degrees are ideal for the harvest; if these were higher, grapes could be damaged'.

Despite of belonging to the first Galician appellation that starts the harvest, cellars of Valdeorras begin this campaing a week later compared with the previous season, when at the end of August we could already find workers in the vineyards.

Throughout the weekend, a great part of wineries that make up the D.O. Valdeorras appellation have joined the harvest, although the main activity is expected to take place around 23 September.