Puerta del Viento -

Puerta del Viento is a small company made up of Jorge Vega as Independent Vigneron, in Cacabelos in the northwest of Spain. We make wine only from our organic vineyards in Bierzo appellation Spain. Puerta del Viento using organic farming strategies:

• Only use organic grapes

• Only use nature yeasts

• Unfiltered wine

• Don’t use any additives or coadyuvants

• Don’t use sulfites added our wine has less than 10 mg/L of total sulfites

The Vega project was set apart in Bierzo from the others for various reasons: it actively searched for old varieties like Pan y Carne with good pH and acidity. The Wineyards are located in three different areas, steep slopes at medium altitude in the vicinity of Pieros location right on The Way of Santiago around 550 m in the vicinity of Canedo around 750 m. We applied vinification high techniques that were less focused on extraction and more on highlighting terroir personality. Additionally, Vega is one of the first producers in the north west of Spain to farm his own wine without additives even without sulfites (less than 10 mg/L). He started in 2010 making nature wine.

Pieros vineyard,

Wits its Roman past, Its location right in the heart of Bierzo in the Camino de Santiago just where Pliny the Elder (AD23-79) saw vineyards 2.000 years ago. The age of the vines are around 80 years old. The soil consist of Steep, chalky and shallow soil comprised of a sub-layer rich in minerals. 

Cortiguera vineyard,

One o the oldest vineyard in Bierzo and also in Spain, Then Pago name is Viñas del Rey and was planted around the year 1880, There are Mencía, Doña Blanca and secret varieties like Pan y Carne. It has all the ingredients to produce Grand Cru wines. The soil is alubial with sand.

Canedo vineyard,

The biggest vineyard 1,2 ha in the middle of 6 ha of forest with pines, oaks, and century chestnuts, here there is the Puerta del Viento´s laboratory wineyard where we are recovering old varieties of vines. Nice place to make a picnic. The soil consit of clay with quartz and nice red colour thanks to aluminium and magnesium silicates

• Only use organic grapes

• Only use nature yeasts

• Unfiltered wine

• Don’t use any additives or coadyuvants

• Don’t use sulfites added our wine has less than 10 mg/L of total sulfites

Puerta del Viento white label: Mencía 100%. 3500 bottles

Vines age: 30 – 80 years old.

Grapes from organic vineyards

Treading grapes and parcial fermentation with indigenous yeasts

in 500 L french oak barrels.

It contains no added sulfites less than 10 mg/L or any other additive or adjuvant.

Bottling: Wine clarified naturally thanks to Bierzo`s winter. It has not been screened.

PUERTA DEL VIENTO CENTENARY VINEYARDS ORGANIC WINE 2019 1300 bottles

Grape: Mencía 100%, organic certificated. The vineyard always have been worked with horses or caterpillar tractor, It was not never added  hervicides, pesticides, or synthesized fungicides.

Vines age: 130 and 80 years old.

Alcohol:13,5% Vol

Grape: Godello 100%, organic certificated. Godello is a indigenous variety with small and hard berries, very difficult to cultivate in the organic way in the north west of Spain.

 Vines age: 30 (60%) – 80(40%) years old.

Alcohol: 13,5% Vol

Grape: Doña Blanca 100% organic certificated from a singular vineyard planted in 1886. The vineyard always have been worked with horses or caterpillar tractor.  Doña Blanca is a minority and indigenous white variety planted in the oldest vineyards near the Sil river in the north west of Spain.

Alcohol: 13% Vol.