TRILOGY
The three works of Familiar Adega Eladio Piñeiro.
Specific vines in specific zones of quality and origin.
“It is a trip of today with references of the past, using traditional varieties, respecting the Terroir, it is elaborated and grown for the greatness and amplitude of sight”
D.O. RIAS BAIXAS only Albariño, it´s our origins in wine growing. This autochthonous and noble variety has inspired love to Eladio Piñeiro since he was a child. During his school holidays and due to working reasons he visited the houses of the farmers who told him stories about this variety whose loose vines they conserved after the phylloxera and tried to grow enough of it for self consumption. These wine was the finest elixir they had ever known and so they made it for their parties, invitations and gifts. Peculiarly enough, they conserved it even buried for several years and became the perfect companion to their gastronomy specially the one prepared in significant commemorations, evolving into a ritual. Eladio Piñeiro witnessing all this from boy, grew up seduced and fascinated by the cult these local people rendered to their wine,to the extent that he knew his life would be bound to this myth of El Salnés.
D.O.C. ALENTEJO In this region of Portugal something similar to our origins with Albariño happened, only it was twenty years later. In 1995 Eladio Piñeiro bought a quinta (farm) in Monçao with an ancient plantation of Albariño and elaborated Quintessencia his brand for the Portuguese market. In this way he got the opportunity to discover the country and its wines, among them there is a variety that enchants him, the Alentejo, which urges him to travel across the Alentejo countryside, town after town, vineyard after vineyard and he knew that this was the best possible area to create a very special Red wine due to the abundance of native varieties, which Portugal has successfully preserved, the richness of its soil and to its microclimate. We are manufacturers of thoroughbred Red wines, with expression and fruit, spicy and silky, elaborated exclusively with grapes from a single property vineyards of more than 25 years, to make an unforgettable Estate Wine.
D.G. ORUJO the distillation by the Galician traditional method has always been inherent to the elaboration of our wines, because along with the Albariño orujos we´ve always distilled an Aqua vitae (Water of life) and obtained the first artisan liquor demanded by the finest restaurants. It was commercialized in an still shaped bottle and elaborated from herbs and fruits following an ancestral recipe passed down through generations until an “Aguardenteiro” (a person who travels the countryside making liquor with his own still) due to the friendship that linked him with my family and having died without issue bequeathed it to us.
Biodynamics
It is our objective to follow it both in the farm and in the wine cellar that´s why we practice it in smallholdings in the El Salnés area and in the vines of the farm of “Pombal” in Estremoz, Alentejo. We practice precision viticulture, we obtain the yield that the vines would produce if they were very old, we do not use aggressive sulphates and we respect the natural surroundings. Besides, we follow the traceability norms scrupulously. From these three Denominations of Origin these FRUITS emerge.
