In 2012, after 10 years working abroad, Biology and Environmental Science graduates Martin Crusat and Patricia Elola decided to return home to their family vineyards. Vimbio was the name of their first wine, it's a Gallego word for willow, which has long flexible canes, traditionally used to tie back vines. It also represents their promise to work sustainably, in a hands-on way in partnership with nature, in their minds the only possible way to do things. Martin's family bought the farm, in the lower reaches of the Miño Valley just before the border with Portugal, in 1985. They left the Rías Baixas DO in 2020, giving themselves freedom to work in a low intervention way which better expresses the terroir.
This cuvée comes from a single vineyard from the sub-region of O Rosal (still of Atlantic influence but with warmer temperatures than O Salnés) which means that this wine will still be sapid, saline, direct but it'll also develop more of a stone fruit and white flower character. It is actually a blend of 85% Albariño, 12% Caíño Blanco and 3% Loureiro fermented with indigenous yeasts and matured in stainless steel for 10 months, the first six of which with periodic batonnage.
Vimbio, Albariño 2022
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