Our Take: The 2022 A Teixa Blanco opens with expressive aromas of white peach, yellow plum, pear, citrus blossom, and fresh mountain herbs. The palate is vibrant and finely textured, layering ripe orchard and stone fruits over a backbone of crushed granite minerality and saline freshness. Energetic and precise, it finishes long and refreshing, with lingering notes of peach skin, lemon zest, and wet stone.

Varieties
95% Treixadura, 3% Godello, 2% Albariño
Vineyard
From a single 1.2Ha parcel in the Ribadavia area, north of Arnoia. The soils here are decomposed granite and sand. The vines are 15 and 30 years old and planted on terraces on the steep hillsides above the Miño river.
Winemaking
The parcel is harvested by hand, destemmed and fermented with native yeasts in neutral oak foudres of 2200 and 2300 liters, then raised in the same vessels for 12 months. Bottled after gentle clarification with bentonite and mechanical filtration, with a small addition of SO2. A Teixa is aged for a year in bottle before release.

This comes from a single vineyard planted on decomposed granite located in the town of Ribadavia, and is comprised of the native grapes Treixadura (mostly), Godello, and Albariño.  Ribadavia is known for producing lush, textured, and expressive wines, and A Teixa is exemplary of this.  The wine is fermented spontaneously with native yeasts in a 23hl foudre, raised on the lees for 1 year in the same foudre, and then released after 1 year in the bottle.