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César Marquez La Salvación Godello 2023

Name: César Marquez La Salvación Godello 2023
Brand: Vin Finesse
Price: 25.70 EUR
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100% Godello

4.61 ❘ 9 Reviews

From century-old vines in Arganza, one of the coolest and northernmost areas of Bierzo. A Godello fermented and aged in large oak barrels, noted for its texture, minerality and balance. César Márquez’s first white wine. Very limited production.

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Wine details

Colour: White
Region & country: Bierzo, Spain
Body: Medium Bodied
Maturity: Ready 2025 - 2032
Allergens: Contains Sulphites
ABV: 13%

Description

La Salvación is the first white wine produced by César Márquez, nephew of renowned winemaker Raúl Pérez, from Godello grafted onto century-old Mencía roots planted on clay and slate soils in Arganza.

After gentle pressing and 24 hours of settling, the juice ferments in 500-liter French oak barrels, where it remains for one year on its lees without bâtonnage. The wine shows vibrant acidity (pH 3.07; 7.25 g/L), remarkable precision and balance, with notes of green apple, pear and wet stone, and a saline, persistent finish.

A benchmark expression of Godello, defined by energy, purity and elegance. Only 6,700 bottles produced.

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“This is the very first white that César made back in 2015 from Godello grafted onto 100 year old Mencía vines in Arganza, in the very north of the region. It’s a wonderful expression of Godello, fermented and aged in 500L barrels. Subtle green apple and pear are layered over wet stone and a steely backbone. Serious acidity underpins the wine, perfectly balancing the richness on the palate. A wine of precision with a morish saline finish.”

“The white Godello 2023 La Salvación was produced with grapes from a one-hectare centenary plot in Arganza, the northernmost and cooler village in Bierzo, a plot on clay and slate that was regrafted from Mencía some 20 years ago. The destemmed grapes were pressed in a pneumatic press, and the juice fermented in 500-liter oak barrels after setting for 24 hours. It matured in those barrels for one year, with the lees but without bâtonnage. It has 13% alcohol, a pH of 3.07 and 7.25 grams of acidity, meaning good ripeness and very good freshness and acidity. It's vibrant and very tasty, piercing and pungent, with a nice compromise between power and elegance. It's more direct, sharp and tasty but with restraint; it takes time to open up in the glass. 6,700 bottles produced. It was bottled in January 2025.”

César Márquez Pérez, Raúl Pérez's nephew, is one of the most precise winemakers in Bierzo with the family Castro Ventosa range and his personal project, which he started in 2015. In the 2023 vintage, he is releasing a new wine from the Villegas area, a lieu-dit in Valtuille on sandy soils. The single-vineyard wines are aging in increasingly larger oak containers, combining 1,200-liter vats with 500- and 600-liter barrels. He owns 7.2 hectares and works a further seven with local growers across Bierzo, from altitudes ranging between 450 to 850 meters above sea level. His production is slowly growing, and he now crafts 60,000 bottles per year.

As he told me while tasting the wines from the family winery, Castro Ventosa, which he also vinifies, "2023 was a cooler vintage with rain at the beginning of the harvest. The wines have a floral, serious and elegant profile with a contained alcohol content of 12.5% to 13%." These are some of the finest and more elegant wines he has produced so far.