Adega Algueira

A benchmark of the Ribeira Sacra wine region, Fernando González has been making wine since 1979, when he fell in love with a vineyard belonging to his wife Ana Delia Pérez’s family. He named the first wine after his wife’s family home: Casa Algueira, which in the Galician language means “the place where friends gather to enjoy.” Casa Algueira eventually became Adega Algueira and was one of the founding wineries of DO Ribeira Sacra in 1996. Fernando later joined forces with renowned Spanish winemaker Raúl Pérez to continue refining the winemaking, and added wines made from traditional grapes like merenzao and brancellao to the lineup.

Fernando’s son Fabio joined the family business in the 2010s, and is gradually taking over from his father. Today they farm about 25 hectares of vineyards, divided into over 80 plots of different sizes, orientations and soils that they have painstakingly recovered from abandonment and neglect. Though not officially certified, they use organic and biodynamic methods in the vineyard, where all farming is done by hand since the steep slopes of Ribeira Sacra don’t allow for mechanization in the vineyard.