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Bodegas El Paraguas and Os Resentidos, a 'carallo' synergy
Bodegas El Paraguas and the legendary Galician music group Os Resentidos reach an agreement to share their experiences under the Fai un Sol de Carallo brand (in Spanish, it's sunny as hell).
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A symbiosis promoted to the defense of the Galician culture, in wine as art and music aspect, which will result in a number of actions together of the winery and the rock band.
Os Resentidos is one of the pioneering groups of the "movida gallega" highly responsible for the emergence of modern rock in Galicia and author of songs that have become history of national custom, as Galicia Canibal. Indeed, the most famous verse of the legendary song appeals to "Galicia Caníbal, Fai un Sol de Carallo ".
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Bodegas El Paraguas, on top of the Gourmets and Peñín guides
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The brand new edition of 2016 the wine guides are already on sale and, with them, the valuations of white wines from Bodegas El Paraguas, which are located at the top of the Spanish wines, not only in the category of whites. Two qualifications that are added to the already long list of successes of the young Galician winery, which with only four crops on the market has positioned its wines among the best in Spain in the eyes of the most influential international critics.
The thirty-first edition of the Guía de Vinos Gourmets has placed wine El Paraguas Atlántico as the Best White Crianza Wine of Spain in its price range (between 15.50 and 20 €), giving 94 points which position it, too, as one of the most outstanding wines of Spain.
For its part, the 2016 Guía Peñín de los Vinos de España, publication concerning the Spanish wine scene, also wanted to boost the wine Fai un Sol de Carallo 2013 among the best whites in the country, valuing the top wine of Bodegas El Paraguas with 94 points. The guide evaluates nearly 11,000 Spanish wines and only a select few overcome the barrier of 93 points.
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2014 wine harvest of Fai un Sol de Carallo has been exhausted in advanced
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As happened with the inaugural harvest, the second vintage of the wine Fai un Sol de Carallo 2014 has already been spent in the cellar, this time, even before bottling. Due to the limited production of this aged white, only 780 bottles, Bodegas El Paraguas has been forced to restrict sales quota to importers, exclusive distributors and partners of the Friends' Club.
Fai un Sol de Carallo 2014 is a wine conceived in the DO Ribeiro with the triumvirate of great indigenous Galician grapes: the Treixadura, Albariño and Godello. A wine made from a selection of grapes from vines located in most favored socalcos or terraces of a vineyard planted in 1892 and have been prepared in full in a barrel of 600 liters, brought to consciousness from an oak forest in Burgundy. After ten months of aging in new wood, the resulting wine remains refining in bottle until marketing in spring.
Price: Between 60 and 70 € in wine stores and specialty shops.
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The first wine of Ferrolterra, ending in cellar
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On September 28 a new page in the world of Spanish viticulture starts. Bodegas El Paraguas successfully completed the first vintage of one of its hawthorns in the parish from Ferrol called Esmelle, to date, the northernmost quality vineyards of the Iberian Peninsula. Despite the youth of the strains of the Blanco Legítimo variety of grape grown in Esmelle and which Bodegas El Paraguas was not watching to produce the first wine from Ferrol in 2015 harvest, an exceptionally rare and warm spring provided a good setting for Blanco Legítimo clusters and that the producing company thought about the posibility of these grapes vinification. After the harvest of the grapes, they are led to CFEA of Guísamo managed by the regional government, where the process of making 45 kilograms of grapes selected in the esmudiense vineyard began, whose alcoholic fermentation is carried out in a small 34 liter stainless steel tank.
The first wine of Ferrol, yet unnamed or commercial character, will be released in early 2016 along with other R & D projects developed by Bodegas El Paraguas with CFEA viticulture area of Guísamo which is directed Xosé by Antonio Meixide 'Tonecho' and governed by Xosé Lois Arenas.
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