Coto De Gomariz- Spain’s White Best Wine
January 18th, 2011 | By Michael | Category: Coto de Gomariz, General, Our Wines, Wine Industry TalkEl Mundo, Spain’s largest and most popular news source, has recently announced their top Spanish Wines of 2010 through their wine division, elmundovino.com. Since 1994, El Mundo and Elmundovino.com have tasted thousands of wines every year in search of the best wines in Spain- quite a daunting task if you ask me! On January 15th of this year, El Mundo and Elmundovino.com announced their selections for the top three Spanish wines of 2010, and on that list was none other than a wine from Coto de Gomariz, a producer we have been working with for several years now. Coto de Gomariz has been incredibly dynamic in pushing themselves every year to achieve the highest quality possible – something that we have seen year after year when we are fortunate to taste their latest vintage. It seems all this hard work and dedication has been recognized within Spain as well, as their 2008 Colleita Seleccionada was selected alongside the world famous producer Vega Sicilia, as one of the top three wines of 2010. Now, any of the Spanish wine geeks reading this right now will understand the importance of being on a list with Vega Sicilia, the winery that basically put Spanish wines on the map. To put in perspective, this would be similar to a small, young, unknown winery in an unknown region of the US being on a “best of” wine list right next to Opus I or Caymus Special Selection- quite a great honor and validation for a young producer!
It is huge honor for any Spanish producer to be selected as one of the top three wines from Spain. The wines were selected by Spanish wine drinkers (who understands Spanish wine better than a Spaniard?) and without a mention of a score, which I love. The wines were selected because, simply, they were the best wines and there isn’t any need to provide a number to justify why it was selected.
Here is the link to the article published on elmundovino.com in its entirety (sorry, Spanish only), but here are several important paragraphs which have been translated;
“Since 1994, El Mundo and elmundovino.com have selected the best wines tasted throughout the year and that were in the market that same year: therefore this time we will not reward two immense riojas of the legendary crop of 1947, Imperial and Marquis de Riscal, that we have had the privilege of trying again during the last several months. But the supreme elegance of those two wines that inspires, in great measure, the prizes to the best of 2010. These reflect a tendency increasingly more palpable among ours best producers, in all regions, to the refinement and also to the rediscovery of the soil, after years of wines of great power and concentration. And particularly it is appropriated, in that context, to see the name of Vega Sicilia among the prizewinners.
In effect, our Wines of 2010 are Vega Sicilia Unico 2000, Coto de Gomariz Colleita Seleccionada 2008 and Turo d’en Mota de Recaredo Brut Nature 1999. The most historic bodega from Ribera del Duero, a young, small wine making property but in a region no less historic, and an atypical, family owned property in the world of Cava.
For their part, the Coto de Gomariz Colleita Seleccionada 2008 is one of the best best Gallego white’s that we have tried, with a depth born in the great soil, a complexity without a doubt favored by its multi-varietal character – treixadura, godello, albarino, loureiro and lado-, that is one of the great strengths from Ribeiro, and with the personality that Xose Lois Sebio instills in his wines. It is a white that arrives where we always thought Ribeiro wines could arrive, recovering the place that this region occupied during the Renaissance which was being lost throughout the centuries and –above all- with Phylloxera. Better late than never.”
We couldn’t be happy for Ricardo, Xose and the entire Coto de Gomariz team!! This is a great honor- keep up the good work.
Enbuenahora chicos!!
Michael





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