Escolinas Blanco de Cangas 2024

Escolinas Albarín Blanco is a single-variety wine native to the Principality of Asturias. Seventy percent of the wine remains in stainless steel tanks, while the remaining 30% ferments and ages on its lees in Asturian oak barrels from Tineo for three months. The terroir of Cangas del Narcea (Asturias, Spain) is bottled in Escolinas using the finest native grapes from the group of micro-farms in the Escolinas area. The process began in 2012, thanks to the Monasterio de Corias. Thirty thousand bottles are bottled from the finest vintages of both single-variety wines and the classic Cangas blend, which has been produced in the area for generations. The area is comprised of a group of micro-farms of just 0.6 hectares in Cangas del Narcea and Ibias, Asturias, Spain. These small vineyards are not suitable for machining, and they suffer from slopes of up to 30% combined with an altitude of over 500 meters above sea level. They constitute one of the few mountain vineyards in Spain. On these steep slopes, the vines thrive on soils with a strong slate component, a characteristic of the terroir that regulates the plant's vigor and results in small yields that produce fine, elegant wines. Varieties such as Albarín Blanco y Negro, Verdejo Negro, and Carrasquín have adapted perfectly to Cangas's extreme climate and slate soils. Together with Mencía, they form a group of varieties that endow the wines with character and personality.