The colleiteiro José Varela Aguado explains on the back label of his white wine on lees that it is a ferrado and he does so in order to give light to the name of his winery and no doubt also, with his eagerness to recover a forgotten term, which is the memory of the work of the ancestors, men and women of the parish of Puga, heart of the Miño Valley, where white wines like this one are still made today, full in aromatics and voluminous in their passage through the mouth and on the palate. After proceeding to its serene tasting, I continued to enjoy this wine with a dish of linguine al bronzo with rock mussels and prawns. Blessed harmony. Treixadura, Godello and Loureira form the basis of the argument of this Catro Ferrados Sobre Lías in the 2022 vintage edition, which shows a very good management in suspending the lees, stirring the wine with a stick to achieve a reinforcement of the final conditions of the wine. In the still glass it shows an intense straw yellow colour, very clean and bright, with hints of gold. Nostalgia in the perfume of citrus fruits, hints of candies, pear and lychee, fine balsamic, brioche note, bouquet of white and yellow flowers. On the palate it opens substantial, ample and fresh, with a glyceric passage, stable and balanced acidity, volume and a very good note of persistence, pulpy and showing a lot of fruity character. A great vintage of a white wine from the Ribeiro appellation. I finish by describing the concept of the ferrado, which is a rectangular wooden container that was used to measure the volume of cereal in commercial transactions. Some time later it was used to measure the surface area. How much land could be sown with this container. Between four, four and six ferrados, depending on the area, would be the equivalent of a fanega.
Puntos El Alma del Vino: 17’50/20.
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