Guimaro Camiño Real 2023

Guimaro Camiño Real 2020

Adegas Guímaro is probably the first winery that put the Ribeira Sacra on the world map of emerging wine areas with quality wines and unique identity. In the Ribeira Sacra the vineyard is cultivated in almost impossible slopes, with terraces or terraces that the Romans designed in a spectacularly unique landscape incomparable for its beauty. The so-called "heroic" viticulture requires people of a special pasta and a sense of tradition scrutinized in the form of "collector" for centuries. Pedro Rodríguez is descended from a family of collectors located in the municipality of Sober, in the sub-area of ​​Amandi, the historically most prestigious area of ​​the Ribeira Sacra. Prior to 1991, Pedro's family produced small quantities of wine for their own consumption and sold their wine in jugs to local taverns. In 1991 they created their own winery called Adegas Guímaro in honor of the nickname of Pedro's grandfather, "Guímaro" whose local meaning in Galledo is "Rebelde". Luis Butrón, oenologist of the winery, was the one who helped the Rodríguez family from its beginnings to elaborate its wines and was a key piece in the birth of the D.O. Ribeira Sacra in 1997. In 2000, Luis Buitrón, a native of León, introduced Pedro to the great winemaker Raúl Pérez del Bierzo. Raúl Pérez helped Pedro see the potential of his old plots to produce wines from a single expressive plot and with potential for aging. This led to significant improvements in the vineyard, such as the reduction of yields, the elimination of chemicals in the vineyards and attention to the exposures of the different plots, which helps to preserve the natural acidity of the grapes. Ancient methods of winemaking were also recovered: autochthonous yeast fermentation, treading of grapes in open containers, inclusion of the whole vintage with scrap in the fermentation, work with low sulfur content and aging in used barrels. With all these new premises Guímaro began to produce wines from its best plots such as Finca Meixemán, Finca Capeliños (El Pecado), Finca Pombeiras (La Penitencia) and the new Guímaro A Ponte as some of the most distinctive wines of the Ribeira Sacra reaching large levels of popularity with the arrival of international recognition and the specialized criticism that gave the wine El Pecado 2005 no less than 98 PARKER points.

Pedro currently owns 9 hectares and continues to explore with new less common native varieties than Mencía such as Caíño, Merenzado and Sousón among others and is on track to obtain the ecological certification of their vineyards.

Guímaro Camiño Real 2020 is 80% Mencía and rest Caíño, Merenzao, Negreda and Garnacha Tintorera. It comes from a selection of plots with different types of soils, granite, slate, gneiss ... and different altitudes and exposures of the sub-area of ​​Amandi. The harvest is manual. The entire vintage with 100% scrap ferments with its native yeasts in French oak fudres. 10,000 were made. liters of which 5,000 l. they made 3 months of aging in fudre and after 7-8 months in French oak barrels of 225 l. and 500l. and the other 5000 l. They were 7-8 months in fudre and 3-4 months in French oak barrels of 225 l. and 500 l. At the end, everything was assembled before bottling. 

Guímaro Camiño Real 2020 is a juicy, fresh and spicy wine. On the nose he gives us red, violet berries on a mineral background. The palate is fresh and very elegant. A wine with an extraordinary price quality ratio.

Production of 13,300 bottles approx. 13% Alc.

Optimal consumption: 2023-2028.

Pairing: stews of legumes, vegetable stew and octopus a feira. Lacón with turnip tops and stews. Cecina, hunting, casquería, grilled meat ...