Winners at Bacchus. Spain’s leading wine world event!
No other wine event held in Spain manages to bring together over four days of such a team of wine tasting experts as the Bacchus panel of judges. More than a hundred personalities combining a diverse backgrounds with professionalism and experience. Journalists, winemakers, Masters of Wine, Masters Sommelier, all together creating a wonderful selection of people ready to assess and recognise the quality of wines coming to this event from all around the world.
Almost all the wine regions around the world are choosing Bacchus as its best showcase for its creations. Wines from the 5 continents (Europe, America, Africa, Asia and Oceania) are including year after year some of their fabulous wines into the global appointment that Bacchus represents in the wine world.
And this year 2 of our wines and wineries have achieved important positions wining medals in this event, with Bioca Godello, our favourite Bioca from Bodegas Maria Teresa Nunez Vega wining BACCHUS DE ORO (Gold Bacchus Medal) and our VIÑA MAGNA from Bodegas Dominio Basconcillos wining BACCHUS DE PLATA (Silver Bacchus Medal) at the 2019 competition.
Congratulations t both Bodegas and keep going with your success!
Coupage is a French word that we can translate as blending or mixture. It is a methodology widely used in the wine world for its many technical advantages. With a Coupage, an expert enologist can improve the final quality of the wine and also provide volume and correct any defects or imbalances that the enologist may consider in the mixes.
A Coupage may be early coupage, just after completing the wine fermentation, in which case the expert is building the wine he has in mind or correcting the flavour he wants to obtain. It may also be a late coupage, to correct deviations that could be produced along conservation of the wine in the cellar.
In any case, the goal of the Coupage is to obtain a final wine that is going to be better and stable over time in comparison to the individual wines that are mixed in the process.
This complementarity can be made by:
YOUNG-OLD MIX
This practice is very common in the wine industry, and is usually made to refresh the aromatic profile of the wine, to increase the reactivity of the wine and also to increase the durability. While in flavour terms these corrections are really easy to do, in aromatic terms the mixture is more complex.
STRUCTURE / FAT
This is one of the most interesting mixtures when considering a Coupage. Wines can be harmonious, aggressive or flats based on this pairing. What is important is whether the aggressiveness of wine comes from over-structure or a lack of fat. The relativity of this perception structure/fat will be marked by the longevity of the wine.
CHEMICAL INTERACTIONS
It is not desirable to mix a wine with a phenolic thiol as phenols and thiols oxidize all lose the potential of the first aromatic. Wine has many chemical dimensions simultaneously, as sweetness, astringency, bitterness, sourness and hot. When you increase the bitterness of the wine, it also increases the nature of the alcohol or when acidity increases, so does the profile of astringency.
COMPLEXITY
The great wines of the world are complex. Therefore, the better the wine is, the greater its complexity must be. To achieve a Coupage of these characteristics, it is necessary to use wines with a wide variety of aromatic profiles.
AN ACCEPTED PRACTICE
We may say that nowadays almost every wine is a Coupage in a certain way, whether it is a blend of different vineyards, separate fermentation containers, or distinct varietals. Blending is a practice that has grown to a concept that many winemakers are implementing in their vineyards with the purpose of blending varietals together to obtain a better product at the end.
Coupage is a practice that can help to get balance in the wine, add layers of flavours, and integrate in a better way the tannins and acids. A Coupage allows the enologists to select the best characteristics of different wines and then mix them together to create a much better flavour profile, it is a methodology that, in the hands of an expert, could be considered as an art.
I first heard about Godello Grapes from Spain some years ago, and lucky me I had the chance in that moment to get a bottle of Bioca Godello from the Winery Maria Teresa Nuñez de la Vega, one of the best specialized wineries in Spain in Godello wines. Almost at the same time, like a strange game played by destiny, I rented a flat in Madrid and the owner of the place was also the owner of a winery, and there I was, sitting in a living room signing a leasing agreement and the name of the owner of the place written in the contract was Maria Teresa Nuñez de la Vega.
After many years knowing them and talking about all the hard work they were doing in the winery to achieve the goal of making one of the best wines in Spain, they finally achieved it. According to the The World Ranking Wines & Spirits made by the World Association of Writers and Journalists of Wines and Spirits, Bioca Godello 2013 was the best white wine worldwide and top five in the ranking in 2015, achieving the distinction of Wine of the year 2015.
Wine of the year certification from the WAWJ 2015
This ranking is the most serious and prestigious global ranking system (created in 1996), since the living they earn, are chosen blindly by people from around the world including the Top winemakers, engineers or specialists in wines and spirits, journalists, importers, buyers, consumers qualified sommeliers and wine lovers, among others, from more than 120 countries.
But the history doesn’t end just there, for second year in a row, now with the 2014`s Vintage, Bioca Godello is in the top 10 list, at the 7th position, achieving again the title Wine of the year 2016.
Wine of the year certification from the WAWJ 2016
It’s such a pleasure to have this “Champion” in our catalogue since the beginning, and we are sure that this wine is going to be Wine of the Year in the next man years to come.
By the way, if you want to have a look at the complete ranking and check out the rest of the top 100 wines of the world, just click on the link below and you’ll have complete access to this information:
According to The World Ranking Wines (WRW) of the World Association of Writers and Journalists of Wine and Spirits (WAWWJ), Bioca Godello 2013 is the best white wine in 2015 and is holding the 5th position in the top 100 ranking of wines worldwide.
Bioca Godello is made with 100% Godello Grapes in the region of Valdeorras (Galicia, Spain), achieving a fantastic lemon colour, with a very lifted floral style, reminding jasmine and orange blossom.
The producer reached an excellent level of acidity, with spice on the midpalate, giving the wine layers of complexity and a long finish. The very limited quantities produced of this wine and the multiple awards earned in the last years makes it a delicatessen, restricted to only a few people in the world. It’s a wine made by a winemaker not by a marketer and that’s something translated to its flavour.
Alcohol: 13,5% Vol.
Conservation: The bottle should be stored laid on its side, in a dark room without vibrations and at a stable temperature of between 8-12°C.
Pairing and Consumption: Ideal to pair with seafood and white fish. Trophy winner in the Sydney International Wine Competition paired with scallops.
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Valdeorras is a Spanish Denominación de Origen (DO) (Denominación de Orixe in Galician) for wines located on the banks of the Sil river, at the south of Ourense province, (Galicia, Spain).
Valdeorras, whose name means “Valley of Gold”, may have been the first grape grower and wine producer region in Galicia. After the ancient Romans had finished mining the area for gold, they planted vines and the wines produced were mentioned in several inscriptions in Latin. The area acquired its official DO status in 1945.
River Sil at Valdeorras
The vineyards of the Valdeorras DO are on the banks of the river Sil, which flows westwards from Castile and León to the province of Ourense. In general the landscape is flat or gently rolling.
The climate in Valdeorras is a combination of Atlantic, continental and a specific micro-climate in the Sil valley. These factors ensure that the vines receive enough sunlight and heat during the short summer. Rainfall is high, between 850 mm and 1,000 mm per year. Temperatures can drop to below zero during the winter.
The Recommended white grapes are Godello and Dona Branca; also authorised is Palomino Fino.
The Recommended red grapes are Mencia, Merenzao, Sousón, Brancellao; also authorised are Grenache Tintorera (Alicante Bouschet), Gran Negro, Tempranillo and Negreda.
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Bioca is one of the most recognised Godello’s Wines in the world. Since 2006 when the winery decided to start to promote the wine all around the world and participate in different competitions, the results have been stunning.
The consistency in the methodology used to make this wine during all this years, is the key to great results year after year, and a warranty that no matter the vintage, the wine is always going to be the perfect choice.
The 2013’s Vintage has been the most successful vintage of this wine so far. In the ranking of wines published by the “WORLD ASSOCIATION OF JOURNALISTS AND WRITERS OF WINES AND SPIRITS” Bioca Godello appears as the second best in the world and best white wine in the world 2015. This ranking is made with a selection of wines from over 600,000 participants in major international competitions.
The list of the awards earned by this wine since 2006 is endless:
