After Rías Baixas, Valdeorras is the second-best recognised Galician denomination in the market thanks to its Godello whites. Maruxa Godello 2025 is a fantastic village wine produced at Virgen de Galir, a winery owned by CVNE.
Consumption features
Pairing
Ideal to accompany shellfish a la marinera or baked haddock neck.
Service
Serving temperature
General features
Type of wine
Region
Grape variety
100% Godello
Type of bottle
Burgundy
Capacity (cl)
75
Bottling
Dec-25
Total acidity (g/l)
5.5
Volatile acidity (g/l)
0.3
Sugar
1.2
pH
3.3
Alcohol content (% vol.)
13.4
Vineyard
Description
Maruxa Godello 2025, 100% Godello, originates from one of the coldest harvests of the last decade in the D.O. Valdeorras, where full alcoholic ripeness was achieved, with good pH and acidity. The grapes come from the vineyard plots on terraces owned by the winery in the village of Éntoma; specifically, from the plots of Regueirón, O Follo, Valdemioto, and Granilla, as well as from local suppliers from the same village
The winery
The origin of the winery Virgen del Galir (2002) is entirely family-based: it was founded by José Barros García who, together with his son David, has championed for years the magic of Valdeorras wines, both those made from godello and the -rarer- reds from mencía. The excellent work of the Barros family (in 2009 Robert Parker included one of their godellos in the top 100 best Spanish white wines under €25 and awarded it 90 points) caught the attention of the CVNE Group, which acquired the winery in 2017 with the aim of giving it the definitive push towards the pinnacle of Galician wines.
The Virgen del Galir winery is located in Éntoma, in O Barco de Valdeorras, in the eastern part of the province of Ourense. There it has 40 hectares of vineyards planted on terraces at over 600 m altitude, some of them old and inherited from previous generations of the Barros family.