Terroir
Bodegas El Paraguas understands the vineyard as a family unit. Each plant is a member of a family and, therefore, each member of the family will contribute with some or other things to the family. With these wickers, we start from the base that not all plants meet the demanding requirements that we pursue for the production of wines; although every day and every year we educate them so that, one day, they reach that minimum essential status so that their clusters make up one of our wines.
With this base, Bodegas El Paraguas elaborates each grape variety of each vineyard -with the exception of the wine Fai un Sol de Carallo– separately and according to a method of elaboration that is considered after studying the nature of each harvest and the potential of the grapes before harvest.
Regardless of the type of winemaking, all the plants come from vineyards with traditional plantation frames, very tight -up to 1 meter by 1 meter-, with great dispute between the plants so that the production is limited, never more than 5,500 kilos per hectare. Likewise, we do not contemplate the mechanization of the vineyards because we believe that, in the long run, it may alter the composition of the soil. Therefore, we do not use herbicides and we limit the treatments to the maximum. Let’s not forget, that we are still in Galicia and diseases such as mildew, powdery mildew or botrytis are usual in a wet or rainy year.
As for the type of driving, depending on the grape variety and the payment, we will work with simple guyot, single string or double guyot. The pruning of the plants generally takes place during the month of December. Finally, every twelve years, we incorporate a natural fertilizer of cows to balance the soil.
La Cabrita
In the municipality of Ribadavia La Viña la Cabrita, which gives its name to the winery, has a mountain in front of the vineyard that acts as a natural umbrella to stop the abrupt temperature changes between night and day during the flowering season. Located at an altitude above sea level of between 220 and 341 meters, the vineyard from which the wines are born El Paraguas Atlántico and Fai un Sol de Carallo is composed of sandy soils of granitic base and was planted in 1892, after phylloxera.
- Location
- Ribadavia. Avia’s Valley. D.O. Ribeiro. Ourense. Galicia.
- Planting age
- 1892.
- Exposition
- On terraces (Galician socalcos).
- Orientation
- S-SW
- Climatology
- Atlantic smooth with some continental influence.
- Altitude of the vineyard
- 67-104 meters / 220-341 feet above sea level
- Cultivation area
- 1.5 hectares / 3.5 acres
- Plantation frame
- A traditional cane-trained vineyard. 1 x 1.1 meters.
- Pruning methods
- Cordon, guyot simple and guyot doble
- Cultivated varieties
- 82% Treixadura, 8% Godello, 8% Albariño and 2% others
- Type of soil
- Granitic based sandy soils
- Type of viticulture
- Not contemplate the mechanization of the vineyards, because we consider that, in the long run, it can alter the composition of soil. Therefore, we do not use herbicides and limit treatments to the maximum.
- Harvesting
- Manual, in boxes.
Paraje de la Mina
Paraje de la Mina is a vineyard nestled in the Avia valley, surrounding the winery located in Cenlle, in the style of the Bordeaux châteaux. A very young vineyard with a granitic base, which follows the same guidelines as the rest of the vineyards of Bodegas El Paraguas. In this vineyard, we have redone the varietal composition with spikes typical of the La Cabrita vineyard, so that the clonal selection is more in line with low-yield but high-quality plants.
- Location:
- Cenlle. Avia’s Valley. D.O. Ribeiro. Ourense. Galicia.
- Planting age:
- 2009.
- Exposition:
- Vineyard surrounding the winery.
- Orientation:
- S-SE
- Climatology:
- Atlantic smooth with some continental influence.
- Altitude of the vineyard:
- 359-391 meters / 1177-1283 feet above sea level
- Cultivation area:
- 1.8 hectares / 4.5 acres
- Plantation frame:
- A cane-trained vineyard. 2.2 x 1 meters.
- Pruning methods:
- Cordon, guyot simple and guyot doble
- Cultivated varieties:
- 70% Albariño and 30% Godello.
- Type of soil:
- Granitic based sandy soils
- Type of viticulture:
- Vineyard contemplated for mechanical works, although much of the work is done manually. Therefore, we do not use herbicides and limit treatments to the maximum.
- Harvesting:
- Manual, in boxes.
La Viña del Médico
Cultivated in the municipality of Ribadavia, next to the Avia river, and located at an altitude of between 160 and 200 feet above sea level, the Viña del Médico is exposed on a terrace and composed of sábrego soils supported by a granite base. A plot planted in 1902 and that Bodegas El Paraguas has been working since 2019.
- Location:
- Ribadavia. Valle del Avia. D.O. Ribeiro. Ourense. Galicia.
- Planting age:
- 1902.
- Exposition:
- Terrace.
- Orientation:
- S-SE
- Climatology:
- Mild Atlantic with continental influence.
- Altitude of the vineyard:
- 160-200 feet
- Cultivation area:
- 1“.25 acres
- Plantation frame:
- A traditional trellised vineyard. 1 x 1.1 meters.
- Pruning methods:
- Cordon, single guyot and double guyot.
- Cultivated varieties:
- 80% Treixadura and 20% Mencía.
- Type of soil:
- Sandy soils of sábrego on a granitic base.
- Type of viticulture:
- The mechanization of the vineyards is not contemplated because we consider that, in the long run, it can alter the composition of the soil. Therefore, we do not use herbicides and limit the treatments to the maximum.
- Cosecha:
- Manual, in boxes.
