Luís Anxo Rodríguez Vásquez

Luis Anxo Rodríguez Vázquez, or simply Luis Anxo, as he’s known to everyone, is one of a small group of winemakers responsible for the quality renaissance of the Ribeiro wine region. He farms 222 plots that make up an area less than 6 hectares, with a production of about 30,000 liters of wine per year. Working out of a small winery in Arnoia, tucked away in Galicia’s Ribeiro wine region, he has become a champion of Galicia’s native grapes and a model of quality winemaking to follow.

After a childhood spent helping in the family winery, he went to school for law, but later changed to philosophy, and then studied oenology in Madrid. In 1984, he took over the family business and planted his first vineyard. Later, he began to piece together other plots by renting or buying them from neighbors, pulling up palomino and garnacha, and replanting them to native varieties like treixadura and lado. His wines quickly established him as a reference point for quality in a region that at the time was dominated by cheap, bulk white and red wines.

Luis Anxo produces serious, age-worthy wines with structure and purity. The best are tight and mineral in their youth, blooming after several years of bottle age into some of the most beguiling wines of the appellation.