About the wine
A textured, ripe fruited blend of Palomino and Doña Blanca from a single parcel of ancient, low-yielding vines in Valdeorras, in the heart of Galicia. Rich, ripe stone fruits are met with notes of ginger, sage, walnuts and wildflowers. Beautifully textured and multi-layered, showing a muscular structure that's perfectly balanced with a a lick of acidity and underlying salinity.
Made with a blend of 80% Palomino and 20% Doña Blanca, the grapes are hand-harvested and then de-stemmed by hand, before macerating gently for 5 days in 400L tinaja before aging in the same vessel for 6 months.
‘Malas Uvas’ translating to ‘Bad Grapes’ is so named due appellation rules which do not allow the use of Palomino grapes, despite their rich history in the region. In the words of Nacho ‘Anything other than Godello was frowned upon, and they recommended uprooting it and replacing it with varieties they considered native. That's why the name could only be Malas Uvas.’
About La Perdida
Nacho's cellar is in Larouco at the heart of Valdeorras in Galicia in Spain's northwesternmost corner. This area has, for a number of years, attracted Spain's larger multi-regional wineries who jostle for the area's flatter fertile land on which the productive Godello thrives. Away from these plots, at higher altitude and on steeper slopes you can find parcels of old vines mostly co plantations of red and white native varieties: palomino, dona branca, godello, garnacha tintorera, mouraton, merenzao (trousseau!) and sumol.
In 2011 Nacho inherited one such parcel of 70 year old vines from his grandmother; O Trancado. And so began his life as a winemaker, as he brought the vineyard back to life through good farming practices and a desire to preserve the regions traditional grape varieties and practices, rather than rip them up and re-plant. He began accumulating parcels mainly around Larouco, actively seeking out isolated and remote plots of land and abandoned vineyards that he could bring back to life.
Nacho now works just over 5 hectares split into around 32 parcels of old vines. The wines are planted in gobelet on a mix of granite and clay soils and made up predominantly of garnacha tintorera (alicante bouschet) and palomino. All vineyard work is done by hand and Nacho, a biologist by training, is fascinated by soil health and the micro organisms that help the vine do what it needs.
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