La Perdida

Biologist José Ignacio ‘Nacho’ González made his first La Perdida wines in 2012 in Larouco, Ourense. The catalyst was O Trancado, an old family parcel passed down by his grandmother and the vineyard that gave one of the estate’s wines its name. He went on to restore abandoned hillside plots around Valdeorras, working by hand to recover mixed plantings of local grapes.

The vineyards are worked without chemical treatments. In the cellar, no sulphur or other winemaking products are added, and the wines are bottled without fining or filtration. The range includes wines made in amphora and older wooden vessels, with spontaneous fermentation and ageing adapted to each parcel.