DaTerra Tabernaria Rosado

Grapes: Mencia

Region: Ribeira Sacra, Spain

Vintage: 2019

Viticulture: Biodynamic

Soils: Granite

Yeasts: Native

Vinification: hand harvested and macerated for a mere 6 hours before spontaneously fermenting in large barrels.

Aging: 1 year in barrels

Fining or Filtering: None

Notes from the Importer: Hailing from Allariz in the province of Ourense, Laura remembers always loving wine as a kid. So much so that she decided, at the tender age of 16, to become a winemaker and enroll in the local enology school. Upon graduation, she worked at the nearby Adega Cachín, and then overseas with Eben Sadie in South Africa and Achaval Ferrer in Argentina. After her various apprenticeships, Laura took over the reins at Dominio do Bibei, a pioneering producer of fine wine in the Quiroga-Bibei subzone of Ribeira Sacra. Laura worked there for 10 years developing a style of winemaking that was fine-tuned to the hillsides of the region, specifically to the terruño around the village of Manzaneda. In 2014 Laura struck out on her own, and with the help of her chef/artist partner Alvaro Dominguez formed Daterra Viticultores. This is how they describe their project: “Daterra Viticultores owes its name to the many women and men who have spent the course of their lives on the Manzaneda mountainsides in the Bibei valley cultivating these vines, and who entrust Laura Lorenzo to carry on their culture.”