📍 Val do Salnés
The coolest and oldest subzone, by the sea.
Val do Salnés is the coolest, wettest and most coastal subzone of Rías Baixas, in Galicia, with granite soils lying under a layer of alluvial topsoil. It is also the oldest and the largest: it covers about 1,500 to 2,700 hectares, which is nearly 60% of the DO's vineyard area.
Albariño is often trained high on granite posts under wide pergolas, and a few ungrafted pre-phylloxera vines of 150 years or more survive. Rías Baixas started out in 1980 as a specific denomination for Albariño alone and became a full DO in 1988, with Val do Salnés among its three original subzones.
Cambados, the heart of the subzone, has held the Festa do Albariño every year since 1953.
How it connects to Wine
📍 Val do Salnés ← grows in ← 🍇 Albarino → kind of → 🍇 Grape varieties → kind of → 🍷 Wine
Links
- Part of
- 📍 Rías Baixas
- Grapes
- 🍇 Albarino
Frequently asked questions
Why is Val do Salnés the coolest Rías Baixas subzone?
It is the coolest, wettest and most coastal of the subzones.
How is Albariño trained in Val do Salnés?
Often high on granite posts under wide pergolas.
When did Rías Baixas become a full DO?
In 1988, after a specific denomination for Albariño created in 1980.
Similar
📍 Soutomaior · 📍 Ribeira do Ulla · 📍 Condado do Tea · 📍 O Rosal
Sources
- MAPA: Denominaciones de origen
- eAmbrosia – EU geographical indications register
- Wine With Seth: Val do Salnes
- Decanter: Rias Baixas
- Cambados town council