This domaine, meaning “cellar of the crown”, is one of the key players in the appellation of Valdeorras, and was founded in 1999 by the López Vicente family.   After generations plying their trade as vine nurserymen, they saw that the time was ripe to take their heretofore no-frills wine production to new heights of quality, and began estate-bottling in partnership with Roberto Fernández. Their beautiful winery, hewn out of the same slate the vines root in, is situated in the town of A Rúa and has been used continuously for wine production since its construction in the mid-eighteenth century.

A Coroa’s crop, one of the lowest-yielded in the entire appellation, is hand-harvested. Autochthonous yeasts propagated via pied de cuve carry out the alcoholic fermentations, and the intrinsically low malic acidity of the Godello variety allows for a natural eschewal of malolactic fermentation. This, along with cool and reductive élevage, furnish the estate Godello with a piercingly focused brilliance.  The majority of the domaine’s twenty hectares of vines are planted to Godello on prime mid-slope expositions in A Rúa which run from slate to granite and alluvial material depending on the altitude of the parcel. The holdings are anchored by the emblematic nine-hectare parcel of A Sobreira, which was planted in 2002 and supplies 60% of the production of the delicious all-tank estate Godello.

Specifically this wine is hand harvested 100% Godello from various mid-slope plots of  slate soils with south and southwest exposures.  Fermented with indigenous yeasts and aged in stainless steel tank without malolactic fermentation.