Brand:  Coccinella 2018; first vintage: 2012.

Appellation: Salnes; Rías Baixas

Grape: 100 % albariño.

Vineyard: Inxertal; more than 100 years old vines, trained in the traditional Pergola style .

Exposure: Facing to the south west.

Soil: 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 1 barrel of used French oak (2010) of 400 liters (Boutes). Batonage weekly for 3 months and aging on its lees for 11 months until bottling. Bottling without tartaric stabilization by cold, without clarification, filtered and  with modest levels of SO2.

Bottled: August 21, 2019 (fruit day -waning moon). Aging in bottle for 3 months.

Production: 504 bottles.

                        Photo: Plot  Inxertal