Sonia and Manuel Costa's Lagar da Costa Albarino Natural is the family bodega's first natural-wine bottling, fermented spontaneously with wild yeasts and bottled unfined, unfiltered and sulphite-free.
Tip: The Lagar da Costa Natural is the rare zero-additive Albarino from a serious family producer; production volumes are small.
Address: Praia das Sinas 19, 36626 Vilanova de Arousa, Pontevedra, Spain, Rías Baixas
The Lagar da Costa Albarino Natural is tagged vegan and bottled unfined, unfiltered and sulphite-free at the Costa family bodega on the Ria de Arousa shoreline.
Tip: Sociovino lists the wine with a vegan tag and unfined, unfiltered, sulphite-free production notes.
The Lagar da Costa Albarino Natural is tagged vegan and bottled unfined, unfiltered and sulphite-free at the Costa family bodega on the Ria de Arousa shoreline.
Tip: Sociovino lists the wine with a vegan tag and unfined, unfiltered, sulphite-free production notes.
Eulogio Pomares, the seventh-generation winemaker at Bodega Zarate, farms the historic Padrinan estate with near-fully biodynamic practices: manual soil work, cover crops for genetic diversity, his own biodynamic teas for vine and soil treatments, no chemical fertilizers or herbicides. The bodega has been recognised for Integrated Production since 1994 but has not pursued Demeter certification.
Tip: Zarate is a leader in biodynamic viticulture in Rias Baixas but practises without Demeter certification. Ask Eulogio about the biodynamic teas during cellar visits.
Alberto Nanclares and Silvia Prieto apply biodynamic techniques across their 2.2 hectares of Albarino divided into twelve small parcels in the Salnes.
Tip: The Nanclares y Prieto Dandelion and Tempos parcel-specific Albarinos are the most expressive examples of the biodynamic-with-seaweed-compost approach.
Pedralonga has farmed organically since the original 1982 planting and began integrating biodynamic practices in 2007. Miguel Alfonso runs the cellar with whole-bunch pressing of Albarino without added SO2, fermentation in stainless steel and malolactic on lees for six months. The bodega's small scale and single-cru focus keep biodynamic methods adapted to the granitic Salnes hillside rather than generic application.
Tip: Pedralonga has been organic since planting and biodynamic-practising since 2007; the wine is a serious natural-leaning Salnes Albarino without certification fanfare.
Nanclares y Prieto's twelve Salnes parcels are certified organic under the Consello Regulador da Agricultura Ecoloxica de Galicia (CRAEGA), the Galician certification body whose label code ES-ECO-022-GA appears on certified bottles. The bodega's seaweed compost and indigenous-yeast fermentation extend the organic framework into a more minimal-intervention approach across the cellar.
Tip: Look for the CRAEGA logo on the back label as the official Galician organic certification mark.
Pedralonga's 7.5-hectare granite-soil cru has been farmed organically since the 1982 planting, certified under CRAEGA. Whole-bunch pressing without added SO2 and lees ageing for six months produce a minimal-intervention Albarino that has been the family's working approach for over four decades.
Tip: Pedralonga has been organic from the original planting; the 2007 transition added biodynamic practices on top of an established organic foundation.
