FIRMO GODELLO

Description

"A wine to fall in love with".
Fermín Rodríguez UrÍa, renowned winemaker, launches his own project to produce wines that express all the typicality of Bierzo. Firmo Godello Fermentado en Barrica 2018, a plot wine, made from 30-year-old Godello vines, cultivated with sustainable viticulture and respectful of the environment. This is a terroir wine, whose sandy soils with a high quartz content give it an excellent minerality. Its fermentation and ageing in 600l French oak barrels for 9 months, resting on its lees, give it an exquisite complexity. A wine with a long life.

• The winery: Bodegas Firmo.
• Location: Valtuille de Arriba
• Variety: 100% Godello
• Geographical indication: DO. Bierzo
• Alcohol: 13,5%
• Vineyard: Made with Godello grapes from 25-year-old vines from a single plot located in Val de Paxariñas, Quilós at an altitude of 600 metres above sea level.
• Soil type: Sandy loam soil with high quartz content.
• Climate: Continental with Atlantic influence.
• Processing method: Cold skin maceration for 6 hours, drained and pressed. Static cold settling for 24 hours. Alcoholic fermentation in 600-litre French oak barrels at a controlled temperature of 14-18ºC. Ageing on fine lees for nine months in the same barrels.
• Certification: Sustainable viticulture.