This wine has delicate aromas of peach blossoms, apricots, jasmine, etc. It is medium-bodied, with citrus and peach flavors, creamy and elegant minerality. The citrus acidity and fresh aftertaste go well with salads and seafood. Fermented with indigenous yeasts only. Aged in a fermenter for 10 months. Bottled unfiltered and unclarified. Alvaredos Hobbs is a boutique brand founded by Paul Hobbs, a leading California winemaker, together with Antonio Lopez, a native of Alvaredos, Spain. Alvaredos is a small village along the Sil River in Galicia. Antonio grew up watching his uncle Fructoso cultivate and manage the grapes he planted himself in the fields around Alvaredos village, and sell the wine he made to a nearby large winery and a local restaurant in Quiroga (later it was discovered that the wine Fructoso was making was what we now call orange wine). Later, due to family circumstances, Antonio's family moved to the United States, and many of the fields in Alvaredos village that had been passed down through generations of the Lopez family since the 1800s were sold. In the early 1990s, as an adult, Antonio decided to reopen a winery in Alvaredos village, where he was born and raised, and bought back the many fields that had been sold. He was heavily involved in the reconstruction efforts of Alvaredos village, which was on the verge of abandonment, and also established a winery that would become the base for making his own wine. Antonio's goal is to produce top quality wines in Alvaredos, a village that Galicia can be proud of, and to spread the wonderfulness of this small rural town deep in the mountains where he was born and raised and where he has many memories of his family to the world. In 2015, Antonio teamed up with Paul Hobbs and Alvaredos Hobbs was born. It goes without saying that the reason for using the name of the village instead of Antonio's own name in the winery's name is that the history of wine in Galicia is long, and there are records that the ancient Romans planted grapes on the south-facing slopes along the Sil River more than 2,000 years ago. After that, under the influence of the pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela (a World Heritage Site) created to spread Christianity, wine brewing and culture were further spread by monks. The Alvaredos Hobbs winery is located along this pilgrimage route. The village of Alvaredos is located in the Ribeira Sacra DO (Inland Spain). This area is known for being heavily influenced by the Atlantic Ocean, and is a region of steep terraced fields (up to 55 degrees) that spread across the mountainside. Along with the neighboring Valdeorras DO, the indigenous black Mencia grape and white Godello grape varieties grow in soils that contain slate, quartz, granite, and clay, under the watchful eye of the blazing sun. The mountains surrounding the vineyards protect the grapes from the rain, and the area is known for its long growing season with extreme temperature differences. A portion of the sales (locally) of Alvaredos Hobs is donated to efforts to protect and revive villages that are on the verge of abandonment, such as Alvaredos, which are numerous in Galicia.