2020 Manuel Moldes A Capela de Aios Albarino, Rias Baixas, Spain Les Capriades offering a viscerally saline evocation

offering a viscerally saline evocation of the nearby Mediterranean

'il Rosso RW/ITALY BOW 22

Making of: the grapes are harvested by hand with a careful selection of only very healthy and ripe bunches

while some are left whole and still others are lightly foot pressed

Fermentation takes place in used 1000 and 1500-liter barrels

2020 Manuel Moldes A Capela de Aios Albarino, Rias Baixas, Spain Les Capriades offering a viscerally saline evocationA Capela de Aios is named after the tiny capela (church) in the small hamlet of Aios, located outside the Ra de Pontevedra. The vineyards sit on a mound of schist, a unique rock formation in a largely granite land, which Manuel says makes up 99. 9% of all the vineyard area within the Val do Salns. Hes drawn to the expression of wines from this hill, not only because they are rare, but because they bring a very different shape and dimension to Albario