The white Godellos of the DO Valdeorras appellation get four medals in the Zarcillo Awards 2013

Pingadelo Godello, Godeval,  Godeval Cepas Vellas and Bioca Goello are decorated with silver Medals in the Zarcillo Awards 2013.

The white Godellos of the DO Valdeorras appellation get four silver medals in the Zarcillo Awards 2013, a fact that ratifies the great harvest of Godello 2012 in Valdeorras and that positions a this DO as the most awarded among its Galician counterparts.

The Zarcillo Awards were created in 1991 as part of the climax of the events for the European Year of Tourism on the initiative of the Regional Ministries for Culture and Tourism, Agriculture and Farming of the Junta de Castilla y León, with the commitment to hold a national wine contest with the objective of promoting and defending the quality of Spanish wines.

Twenty two years later, the Zarcillo Awards have reached their XV national and their VIIinternational edition. Over the years, it has been consolidated as the most important national event for Spanish wines with the intention of making it one of the most prestigious contests in the world.

The methodology used to give awards to the best wines is comprised of a complex system for receiving the samples and strict control by computer for processing the data provided by the juries. Throughout the duration of the event, the rules stipulate that an expert representative of the O.I.V, with the technical support of the Oenological Station of Castilla y León, must ensure that the standard is complied with. For four days, the best wine tasters in the world and the best trained palates on the planet will congregate to judge which wines are the best in the contest. The rules stipulate that any wine producing country in the world is allowed to participate in accordance with the definition adopted by the International Wine Organisation, whose samples are classified into seven categories: whites, rosés, reds, semi-sparkling, sparkling, liqueur and aromatic varieties

For its part, we present you the wines of the DO Valdeorras appellation awarded in the competition:

Pingadelo Godello 2012, of Viñas Virxe Cooperative, is a flinty wine, mineral nose with hints of green fruits (apple) is followed by a very rich palate which is salty, mineral and also fresh and lively. 

The winery-cooperative Virxe das Viñas was founded in 1964 by wine growers of the region of Valdeorras. Currently it is composed by a total of 850 members and has 350 acres of vineyards which represent aproximately about 45% of the production of the region, and which ensures the quality of their raw material.

Its wines are made with the support of the latest technology and with the varieties Godello, Dona Blanca and  Palomino Fino for the whites and Mencía, Garnacha and gran-negro for the reds.

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Godeval 2012, from Godeval Winery,   is green-amber in color with an aromatic nose of citrus, peach, pear and bright minerality. Medium in body with crisp acidity, it offers flavors of peach, apricot, lemon, lime, grapefruit and herbal notes, with no oak. It is beautifully balanced to enjoy in its youth, over the next 3-4 years. With excellent balance and a rich, silky texture, this wine coats the palate on the finish with long-lasting flavors.

Meanwhile, Godeval Cepas Vellas 2011 is a complex Godello with maceration over lias and has got the same tasting notes: Color: bright straw. In the nose are fresh, white flowers, mineral, ripe fruit and in palate is flavourful, fruity, good acidity and balanced.

Bodegas Godeval was founded in 1986 and subsequently restored and transformed the medieval Monastery of Xagoaza into the Godeval winery. Godeval focuses exclusively on the Godello grapes grown on its 17 hectares of vineyards. This 2010 vintage of Vina Godeval earned high marks from all of the top critics, with scores of 91 from both Parker and Tanzer and 90 from Wine Spectator. It was also selected in Wine Spectator’s Top 100 for 2011!

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Bioca Godello 2012, of María Teresa Núñez Vega winery, has got Lovely lemon lime notes. Toasty youth notes that will open like a flower to reveal baskets of apricots and peach. Balance and concentration and poise. Quite delicious.

Bioca Godello has been one of the great ambassadors of the wines of the DO Valdeorras appellation internationally, achieving awards in several competitions in Europe and North America.

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The winery Maria Teresa Nuñez Vega gives the starting signal for the grape harvest 2011 in Valdeorras

 The high temperatures recorded as well as the combination of Atlantic and Mediterranean winds, have led to the optimal ripening of the grapes in the vineyards of the Maria Teresa Nunez Vega winery, located in the town of Petín at the Valdeorras region.

Although the bulk of wineries belonging to the DO Valdeorras will still have to wait at least another week, the excellent fruit ripening, driven by the optimal weather that has characterized the season in Valdeorras, has predisposed that this wine cellar, based in the town of Petín, to kick off the 2011 grape harvest.

Sunday began with the preparations and this Monday morning around 2,000 kilos of godello were collected, which include "its high quality 'and a graduation of around 13 degrees.

The winery of Petín expects to end up the collection of the two varieties' grape production in 15 days; these are Godello and Mencía, and they hope to collect around 47.000 kilos. 'We maintain that the figures will be more and less the same than the last year ones, although there may be an increase of 10% ", says Celestino Noveira, co-owner of the winery and winemaker of Bioca.

From the Regulatory Council, it has been emphasized that the intense heat experienced in this region during the spring months has helped that now, in the month of August, the harvest  has had to be brought forward. Although traditionally, the Regulatory Council has always set the date for the grape harvest during the early September, this year, the 35-degree temperatures experienced during most of August and the combination of Atlantic and Mediterranean winds, have favored this advancement.

Jorge Mazaira, technical director of the Regulatory Council of the D.O. Valdeorras, ensures that the harvest of this year will exceed 'without doubt'  the 5.5 million kilos that were collected last year. "We have and will have a good production and a very good harvest in quantity and quality", says Mazaira.

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Once failed the 2010 Brussels World Competition, the world championship of tasting nearly 7,000 wines and spirits participants worldwide and endorsed by seventeen years of experience, the quality of designations of origin Ourense, as three of They won important awards by achieving nine medals: two gold and seven silver.

Wines from Ribeiro, Valdeorras and thus contributed Monterrei that Spain continues to occupy a prestigious second place in terms of number of awards received in the well known and reputable event year, involving 275 professional tasters this year in Palermo, but the first as the country's largest gold medals from Brussels World Competition, seventeen against the sixteen year ago.

Two of them were for Costeira Treixadura 2009 Collection of the Cooperative Wine O Pazo Ribeiro and also for Marin 2009 Pazo Blanco Blanco Núñez SL Monterrei, the denomination's youngest province.

The remaining seven silver medals for wines obtained ourensanos Valdeorras were divided into three, for Bioca Godello 2009, Guitián Sobre Lías 2008 Viñaredo Barrica Selección Godello 2007, Ribeiro to Adega do Beade Moucho 208 and 2009 and White Supremacy Monterrei. In this case fell to Alma de Blanco Godello 2009 and Fifth des Tapias Blanco 2009.

The Brussels World Competition is also the first event which established a control, a posteriori, the award-winning wines to ensure the legitimacy of their results. After each issue of the appointment, an independent laboratory analyzed chemically an important selection of the winning samples and a team of winemakers tasting the bottles sent anonymously purchased compared with other points of sale, recognizes the contest itself, which gives more value the winners.

BODEGA Mª TERESA FERNÁNDEZ NÚÑEZ

The history of the Bodega Maria Teresa Fernandez Núñez was born in 1954. But in 2004 when the winery joins the Valdeorras. Today, with modern facilities with capacity of 30,000 liters, which are able to process white and red grapes according to the latest techniques. Their vineyards (in the setting of the cave) is situated on the slopes of streams Olivedo Bioca and on the left bank of the river Sil, on well-drained fertile soils. These features together with the microclimate of the area, make them ideal for the cultivation of varieties Godello and Mencía, which are the basis of their wines.