Profile
2013Since
- Vineyard
- Terraces in Amandi (Ribeira Sacra) · slate and schist · vines from 20 to over 100 years old
- Production
- Very limited
- Varieties
- Mencía, Merenzao, Godello, Treixadura, Palomino, Garnacha Tintorera
- In the vineyard
- Organic with biodynamic practices, hand harvest in baskets
- In the cellar
- Native yeasts, foudre and old barrel, minimal sulphites
The brothers Carlos and Juan Rodríguez and winemaker Fredi Torres founded Sílice in 2013 in Amandi, in Ribeira Sacra, reclaiming almost vertical terraces above the Sil canyon, with vines from twenty to over a hundred years old on slate and schist. They work outside the D.O. to have freedom in vineyard and cellar.
They farm organically with biodynamic practices and harvest in baskets, by hand. They vinify plot by plot with native yeasts, macerating some whites on their skins, and age in foudres and old barrels before bottling with minimal sulphites.
Their wines
5 wines- Silice Blanco 25 50% Treixadura, 30% Godello and 20% Palomino / 8 months on fine lees NEW VINTAGE
- Xabrega Blanco 24 30% Treixadura, 30% Albariño, 30% B. Lexitimo and 10% others / 70% 6 months new barrel and 30% stainless steel NEW VINTAGE
- Silice Rosado 25 Mencía, Merenzao and Palomino / 4 months in new barrel and stainless steel NEW VINTAGE
- Silice Tinto 23 77% Mencía, 18% Merenzao and Garnacha Tintorera and 5% white grape / 9 months in fudres NEW VINTAGE
- Xabrega Tinto 22 90% Mencía and 10% Garnacha Tint. / Malolactic fermentation / 3 months in barrel NEW VINTAGE
White
Rosé
Red
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