Louro 2023

Louro is the starter wine from the Rafael Palacios winery in A Rua (Ourense) and the smaller sibling of the widely-praised As Sortes. Both are made using grapes from old vines (up to 40 years old) planted at heights of around 700 metres on the hillsides of the Bibei Valley. Traditional and organic farming methods are used to maintain the old stone terraces and avoid the use of herbicides. The wonderful Godello grape, which wines like As Sortes helped to restore to their rightful place at the top of Galician winemaking, is blended with a small amount (8%) of the local Treixadura variety to produce Louro. Granite and schist soils force the old plants to dig deep for nourishment in the lower levels of clay.