Emilio Rojo

The wine remains the same, a single cuvée from the vineyard co-planted with Treixadura, Lado, Godello, Albariño, Caíño Blanco, Torrontés and Loureira that Emilio tended all his life. The 2022 Emilio Rojo has a bright, almost fluorescent color and a textbook nose with herbal notes, hints of wet stones and pollen. It's clean and harmonious, undeveloped, with a mellow palate that reflects a warmer and riper year but with the spark of granite minerality that makes it one of the most delicious whites from the zone. It has good ripeness (13% alcohol) and a balanced 3.37 pH. 2,704 bottles were filled in the summer of 2023.

2019 was the first vintage under the new ownership; it was a very good year with mild weather and a quiet harvest when they picked the grapes with no stress. The 2019 Emilio Rojo is a blend of all the grapes in the now organically and biodynamically farmed (but not certified) vineyard—Treixadura, Godello, Albariño, Torrontés, Loureira, Caíño Blanco, Lado, etc. The grapes were picked in two passes and fermented with indigenous yeasts in stainless steel followed by 14 months in tank. It has 12.5% alcohol, a pH of 3.42 and 6.9 grams of tartaric acid per liter (acidity). Emilio Rojo sold to Carraovejas in June 2019, and unfortunately, his wife died in November, so he was not involved in the harvest. This is still young but is clean and expressive, with lower acidity and some smoky and nettle notes from the Treixadura. This vintage aged for a shorter time with the lees but spent more time in bottle, as it was bottled in December 2020 and was kept for a couple more years before it was released. 2,190 bottles and 300 magnums produced.