odegas Sampayolo is a cellar placed in the council of Petin de Valdeorras, province of Ourense, belonging to the D.O of Valdeorras that it is one of the oldest D.O of Spain. We are a young cellar and it is the result of the ambition of Javier Garcia to recuperate the old wine yards of his family and the traditional stock wine from Galicia, some ones more that one hundred years old stocks wines.

The wines that we make are single variety wines with Godello and Mencía. The single variety wines are high quality wines elaborate with the target of to integrate the ancestral craft techniques of the viticulture with the most advanced process of the wine production. The combination of the old traditional knowledge with the new oenology techniques allow us to offer a high quality wines full of taste and flavour. In despite of the early life of our cellar the traditional knowledge of wine makers from Valdeorras is impressed in our wines.

The Godello wine make for Bodegas Sampayolo is a single variety wine. It is wine with a fine fresh fruit exotic and green apple aroma; yellow light clear or straw; clarity colour crystalline; brightness brilliant; good intensity colour; shades greeny gold; good intensity bouquet; distinguished general impression; medium finish; elegant flavour; light acidity; well built: harmonious balance; gradation of 12.5º, delicate, well-balanced, length and full complex.
Perfect as single drink. Good match with fish, starters, seafood and vegetables. Serving temperature 8º to 10ºC.

The Mencía wine make for Bodegas Sampayolo is a single variety wine. With a intense red purple colour and elegant fruit aroma, full of taste, well balanced alcohol- acidity, well built, fresh and with a good length and complex. Limpid clarity; crystalline brightness; medium intensity colour; ruby shade colour; powerful intensity; cherry, blackcurrant and raspberry fresh fruits aroma presents; rich general impression; very long finish; well built tannis and firm acidity flavour; full bodied and balanced.
Good match with red meat, hunting meat, lamb, pork and chess. Serving temperature 14º to 19ºC.

One hundred years old stocks wines
The perfect mixture of grapes coming from stocks wines more than 100 years old and some ones younger coming from the news wine yards is the base of our wines. The pruning in “espaller” gives to the raceme the right ventilation and we use natural fertilizers to treat the earth.

The photobiology treatments are no aggressive with the environment (not chemical products are allowed). During the grape´s harvest, we check every day the sugar, gradation, ph and acid, to guarantee the best grape’s ripe.

The fermentation is making with the last technology. The use of modern stainless steel tanks allow us to have a perfect control of the temperature during the fermentation The perfect decant of the wine’s mud is favoured by the low temperature of the Galician winter and using a traditional system to clear it as egg’s white that is fully respectful with the environment.

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