Mixtura Red Wine Spain 2018 750 ML

Mixtura is a small craftsman winery in northwestern Spain helmed by Gutier Seijo Otero, a Galicia native who has gained extensive experience working in some of the most prestigious cellars of Galicia and throughout the world in his work with other top wineries. Created in 2019, Mixtura – Independent Wines is the natural evolution of his ideals, vision, and all that he has learned along the way. Mixtura was born of an ideology built on the search and recovery of historical vineyards and their native varieties along the course of the ancient river valleys of northwestern Spain’s border with Portugal. Working with grape varieties that straddled the Miño river centuries before a border even existed, Gutier has left the geographical and political restrictions of appellations behind him in order to focus on discovering the purest expressions of terroir. Cuvee ‘Red’ is a stunning, electric red wine made from the caiño longo grape variety from the village of Beiro in Ribeiro, a wine which perfectly encapsulates the identity and soul of the Ribeiro region. The 0.2 ha single-vineyard Paraje was planted between 2013 and 2019 from naturally low-yielding, old massale-selection clones in sábrego blanco soils – white sandy decomposed granite. Ribeiro has a transitional climate with a Mediterranean character that is moderated by the influence of the Atlantic Ocean. Gutier farms the vineyard by hand, utilizing organic and regenerative principles, including cover glass between rows.