Fedellos do Couto
Fedellos do Couto - Camandula, Galicia, Spain (2019)
Fedellos do Couto - Camandula, Galicia, Spain (2019)
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TASTING NOTES
Amazing freshness on the nose along with red fruits, sour cherries, and a slightly rustic, herbaceous scent. Surprisingly soft, with all the aromas now repeated on the palate, light in body with a medium long dry finish.
REGION | Spain > Galicia |
GRAPE(S) |
Souson (mostly Mencía, Mouranton, Grao Negro, Garnacha Tintorera, Bastardo, Godello, Doña Blanca and Palomino) |
VINTAGE | 2019 |
FORMAT | 750ml Bottle |
ABV | 12% |
FEATURES | Low Intervention, Organic, Vegan-Friendly |
SCALE | Dry |
Out of the three Peixes cuvées by Fedellos do Couto, Camandula is the most powerful and textural wine. The Peixes wines are grown and made higher up in Bibei, where the soils are infused with a unique type of granite called mica.
Camandula is a field blend made from mostly Souson - a native grape to Portugal, as well as Mencía, Mouranton, Grao Negro, Garnacha Tintorera, Bastardo, Godello, Doña Blanca, and Palomino.
Fedellos loosely translates as "Brats", and Couto refers to the 12th century manor in Ribeira Sacra at the heart of the vineyards.
It's a young project, started in 2013 by Luis Taboada (whose family has owned the Couto manor for generations), and winemakers Curro Barreño and Jesús Olivares.
They lease 4 hectares of vineyards which are farmed organically and worked by hand - you couldn't do otherwise on these steep terraces! The vines are planted on terraces along the steep slopes of the rivers Sil and Bibei, with a myriad of grape varieties, altitudes, and expositions.
The wines are fermented with indigenous yeasts and whole bunches, at low temperatures to favour a gentle extraction of colour and phenolics. All the wines share an Atlantic freshness and a slatey minerality that make these wines unmistakably Galician
