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Cornamús
Grapes: Godello
Vintage: 2023
Soils: Granite, quartz and gneiss.
Orientation: Southeast and East.
Climate: Continental with Atlantic influence.
Elaboration:
Mixture of destemmed and pressed by foot
grapes, with an unfinished fermentation in steel. Fermentation finished in 1.000lt.
foudre with 100% indigenous yeasts.
Ageing: 15 months in 2000lt. french foudre on the
lees with battonage.
Aditional Information: Cornamús is the result of the work Algueira has been doing for the last 45 years into recovering the indigenous local white varieties, with a special the focus on the Godello. Mat variety
itself has a unique talent in transmiting the essence of freshness and balance of our terroir. Our goal was to preserve that identity keeping it as the main component of this wine while being suported by the minerality of our soils, granite and quartz taking the protagonism. Our duty at the winery was the let the wine express it’s elegance by letting it rest in our oldest foudres interveining as minimum as possible. As a result, Corna- mús became the perfect expression of the potential of our landscape to produce unique