Eido Da Salgosa Rias Baixas Albarino
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Eido da Salgosa and Cazapitas are two projects in distinct zones of coastal Galicia from the same team of viticultores. In 2014, Juan, David and Manuel made their first wine as a lark. They were encouraged enough by the results that they began taking winemaking more seriously, increasing the production little by little. Now eight years into their partnership, they are still considered a "microbodega", with a total production of less than 20,000 bottles between the two projects. Eido da Salgosa is in Tomino, a modestly-sized village just over the Minho River from Portugal. This is the heart of the O Rosal zone of the Rias Baixas appellation - the southernmost of the coastal growing areas. There are two wines here. The first is a varietal Albarino that leans into the grape's potential to transcend the "summer sipper" category with a mid-palate richness that is balanced by hyper-articulated acidity. The second is a blend of the typical white varieties of the zone that delivers floral and white tea elements to complement the citrus and yellow stone fruit of the Albarino. Cazapitas is the name of the trio's project in the IGP of Barbanza e Iria. Though viticulture and winemaking have been going on here since time immemorial, it was not included in the delimitation of the Rias Baixas D.O. and was only awarded IGP status in 2006. Here, the vines are at the foot of the sea. It's a place of mist and mystery, where the presence of the ancients is more acutely felt than in some of the more well-travelled parts of Galicia. The name Cazapitas is the result of a bureaucratic challenge. They wanted to name the project Raposo, after the vanishingly rare grape variety they are working to recuperate, but this was not allowed by the IGP authorities as Raposo, despite being native, is not an approved variety within the zone. Raposo means fox in Gallego, and being that the fox is the scourge of the local chickens, they settled on Cazapitas - "chicken hunter" - as a stand-in for the disallowed word.