Roasted Trout with Aji Dulce Peppers and Baby Potatoes + 2018 Bodegas Avancia Cuvée de O Godello #Galicia #WorldWineTravel
Last month the #WorldWineTravel bloggers took a virtual trip to Rías Baixas. You can read my post: Sopa de Cebolla + 2020 Fillaboa Albariño . But within Galicia are a total of five Denominacións de Orixe (DO): Monterrei, Rías Baixas, Ribeira Sacra, Ribeiro, and Valdeorras. And I wanted to do a little deeper dive into some of the other DOs. In the Glass Valdeorras was named for the extensive gold mining that the Romans did in the area. Val-de-Oras is roughly 'valley of gold' in Latin and it is home to two of Spain's indigenous grapes: Godello and Mencía. Bodegas Avancia lies in the mountains of Valdeorras which has predominantly slate soils. The estate is small - less than 25 acres - with the grapes being dry-farmed and cultivated organically. Jorge Ordóñez specializes in working with the Godello grape which is native to northwest Spain. Though DNA profiling of the grape says it is genetically identical to the Portuguese grape called Gouveio which grows througho...