VALDEORRAS, donde nace la Godello

"All the Godello sold around the world has its origin in Valdeorras", and with this statement, Jorge L. Mazaira Pérez, technical director of the Valdeorras D.O. for the last 23 years, started the Godello tasting.

The small estates that make up the Valdeorras vineyards are perfectly integrated within the area’s Mediterranean type vegetation: pine trees, chestnut trees, heather, cherry and fig trees, accompanying the main aromatic herbs of dill, rosemary and mint, as well as the widespread “xesta” or broom (Cytisus scoparius), a lovely shrub whose flowers, along with the gorse flower, colour the Galician mountains yellow.

This spectacular landscape is arranged around several rivers, at the bottom of the valley of the Sil, its main tributary, the Bibei and the Galir, in the heart of Éntoma. This territory runs through 8 towns and stretches over 35 km from end to end.

The wines’ personality is derived from their slopes and various soils of granite and slate, with areas of pebbles and white or red sand, depending on the area.

We recommend you visit the "fornos", the ovens that the residents of poorer neighbourhoods used to share, which have now