Anónimas Viticultoras 'Catro e Cadela' 2023 Godello Valdeorras, Spain

750ml bottle

13.5% abv

Fresh and fruit-forward nose, with white peach, pear, lemon balm, and herbs, floral lift and flinty minerality. The palate is medium-full, clean and bright, with great acidity and a slight creaminess. Fennel, green apple, lemon pith and lemon oil on the mid-palate, with a mineral core through the long finish. Bright and dry.

100% Godello from vines averaging 20-60 years old on the south facing, right bank of the river Sil in Valdeorras.
Winemaking:  Destemmed and lightly crushed. Cold maceration and fall of the free-run juice. Fermentation with neutral yeast to favor the expression of the grape variety. Aging on the fine lees in stainless (80%) and used French oak (20%) for 5 months.
Production:  4,600 bottles

In addition to the 'Atlantico' vineyards of Anónimas in Rías Baíxas, Cristina and Maria also had the opportunity to cultivate plots of vineyards in Ribeira Sacra and Valdeorras. This concerned vineyards that were worked completely traditionally and manually, by winegrowers who no longer had the opportunity to do this themselves. The project in these two ancient wine regions just above Portugal was baptized 'Catro e Cadela'.

Anónimas Viticultoras is the project of winemakers Cris Yagüe Cuevas and Maria Falcón. Based in Rias Baixas, where Cris has made wine for many years, and where Maria's family has done so for generations, they also source fruit from around Galicia. Fresh and elegant wines. In Cris's words, “Anónimas is a project from the vine to the consumer, a tribute to the anonymous women that should have had their place in history and were never recognized. We collaborate with other women in the world of wine—growers, winemakers, enologists—to make these personal wines.”