Brand:  La Tinaja de Aranzazu 2018. First vintage 2016.

Zone: Castrelo and Sisán  Village: Cambados and Ribadumia (without appellation).

Grape: white.

Vineyards: plot Paraje Mina in the zone of Castrelo  in Cambados village; plot Inxertal in the zone of Sisán in Ribadumia village. 30 to 90 years old; traditional pergola style.

Exposure: Facing to the west plot Paraje; Southwest plot Inxertal.

Soil: decomposed granitic, sandy soils.

2018 vintage: Winter begins dry and final cold-rainy, brudbreak late; Spring continued cold-rainy and just hot, flowering normal; Summer too cool-wet delayed maturation but August dry-hot +30° precipitating it in 15 days; Harvest started 9/10 and ended 10/6 of 2018.

Vinification: Clusters  selected by hand in the vineyards. Quickly transported to the winery in  15 kg crates. The grapes were not destemmed before going into a pneumatic press for a low pressure pressing.  Fermented with its own yeasts ,without static settling,  at a controlled temperature and without the use of any additional product apart from sulphur in two  amphora (Padilla Pottery) of 200 and 250 liters . Batonage weekly for 3 months and aging on its lees for 9 months until bottling. Bottling without tartaric stabilization by cold, without clarification, filtered and  with modest levels of SO2.

Bottled: June 17,2019 (fruit day). Aging in bottle for 5 months.

                       Photo: Plot  Paraje MIna                                     Tinaja de barro (Alfarería Padilla)