Godello
In A Gadda Da Vida 2022
La Senda

Grape Variety: Godello

Producer: Bodega La Senda (Diego Losada)

Region: El Bierzo, Castile y Leon, Spain

Wild Scale: 4/5

Vegan friendly wine

Winemaking: Organic Godello grapes were harvested by hand. Fermentation in old, open-top barrels with indigenous yeast. Aged on the skins for 90 days before being moved to old oak barrels for a year. No fining, filtration or added sulphur.

This Wine: Natural orange wine with a medium body. Quite different to previous iterations with more of a focus on smokey mineral notes rather than aromatics. Best served with food. Diego named this wine after the psychedelic rock song by Iron Butterfly which was the first he learnt to play on the guitar. The label has references to the famous painting "The Garden of Earthly Delights" by Hieronymus Bosch. 

Notes on the Winemaker: Diego Losada is very much an outsider in his hometown of Ponferrada in the North of Spain and this was the case even before winemaking. Now he creates wines that stand out amongst the crowd in Bierzo with authentic and true reflections of the region. We have visited him a couple of times to see his vineyards and help him in the winery, always to the soundtrack of Metallica!