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At Pazo de La Cuesta, there are still two micro-plots of 4,000 and 2,000 square meters, on the banks of the Sil River, of this prized variety, once imported from France. \u201cGarnacha tintorera has good resistance to powdery mildew. That is why many Galician winegrowers decided to import it at the time and built their vineyards from this biological material. We plan to start a research project with the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cient\u00edficas (CSIC) this spring to document and analyze in detail each of the vines that have reached our days\u201d, explained the general manager of Pazo de La Cuesta, Jes\u00fas \u00c1lvarez.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This new wine is another step forward in continuing the legacy of Manuel Batanero de Montenegro, a true pioneer and driving force behind the relaunch of the Pazo de La Cuesta winemaking project in the 19th century. \u201cThis Garnacha Tintorera is the most beautiful way to connect the glorious past of the pazo with the modernity, innovation, and restoration of the current project,\u201d revealed the owner of Pazo de La Cuesta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The bottle design of this new Pazo de La Cuesta Garnacha Tintorera also has a lot of symbolism and meaning, as it shows the coat of arms on the main facade of the estate, representing the Batanero de Montenegro and Florez de Losada y Quiroga families. It is the same coat of arms that was used on the 19th-century labels of the Ch\u00e2teau La C\u00f4te wine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Garnacha Tintorera is a variety classified as \u201cauthorized\u201d within the Ribeira Sacra Designation of Origin. Therefore, this new reference is located outside the scope of the Designation of Origin. \u201cIt is a wine with varietal identity, versatile, that preserves the freshness of the terroir and continues its maturation in the bottle. The first edition is limited as the next one will depend on weather conditions. Our idea is to capture the essence of this historic vineyard as clearly as possible, with an exquisite and minimally interventionist winemaking process. We want it to be a wine for cellaring, with a very positive evolution in the bottle and, to this end, we are going to ensure that it is only released in exceptional vintages\u201d, Jes\u00fas \u00c1lvarez said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The new Garnacha Tintorera, bottled in July 2023, is harvested by hand with fruit selection in the vineyard. After alcoholic and malolactic fermentation, it is aged for eight months in French oak barrels: one 500-liter and two 300-liter medium toast barrels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since 2020, Pazo de La Cuesta, located in Ribas de Sil, has been immersed in a renovation and recovery project of its historic vineyard and the restoration of the primitive 16th-century winery. The oldest family winery in Galicia has belonged to the same family since its foundation and it has been Manuel Bellod \u00c1lvarez de Lorenzana, who is part of the fourteenth generation, the one in charge of starting this initiative assuming the commitment to return the prestige of yesteryear to the pazo, its vineyard and its wines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n