LG VALBUXÁN TINTO LEXÍTIMO

Valbuxán is an old “pazo”. The “pazos” in Valdeorras are estates located mainly in the mountains, where extensive pastures provided good income from livestock. These estates also used to have a cellar where grapes from the surrounding communities were pressed. A few years ago, we came across the derelict pazo Valbuxán. After completely renovating it, including the original cellar where wine was made more than 300 years ago, it has become our winery and our home in Valdeorras. The pazo helped us to think about the wines we would make here and inspired us to revive its vocation of making a wine with grapes from the nearby area. L.G Valbuxán (lugar de Valbuxán or the place Valbuxán) is our hommage to this tradition.

Region: Valdeorras

Village: As Ermidas and Santa Cruz

Varieties: Mencía, Brancellao, Sousón, Garnacha Tintorera...

Viticulture: Traditional viticulture. Manual harvest in small boxes.

Winemaking and ageing: Spontaneous fermentation with native yeasts. Aging in foudres and barriques.

Soils: Shallow soils, terraced due to steep slopes generally oriented to the west and south, stony, acidic and coarse-textured. Developed from granodiorites.