Goyo García Viadero wine bottle

Goyo Garcia Viadero Joven de Vinas Viejas 2021

Goyo Garcia
$27.00

Grape: Tempranillo
Vintage: 2021
Type: Red

This un-oaked red wine is a youthfully focused expression of old-vine tempranillo grown organically at high elevation in Ribera del Duero. Winemaker Goyo García Viadero harvests the fruit by hand from dry-farmed vineyards rooted in clay-limestone soils. The grapes undergo a three-month skin maceration and ferment spontaneously with native wild yeasts inside neutral steel tanks. Bypassing wooden barrels, the wine settles entirely in tank and is bottled without fining, filtration, or any sulfur additions.

It radiating a clear ruby-purple color, releasing clean aromatics of wild strawberry, red cherry, and field flowers. On the palate, the light-to-medium body is exceptionally juicy and direct, focusing on an energetic fruit presentation. Fine-grained, chalky tannins provide a smooth structural grip that coordinates nicely with a clean wave of natural acidity. Subtle notes of ground pepper and stone add depth across the fluid core. It finishes completely dry and crisp, leaving a refreshing berry trace.

Goyo Garcia Viadero comes from one of Ribera del Duero's long-established wine families, but his own project moves deliberately away from the region's modern reputation for heavy extraction, new oak and highly polished cellar work. The son of the founder of Bodegas Valduero, Goyo began his independent estate in 2003 with old family parcels around Gumiel del Mercado, working with Tinto Fino, Albillo and other local varieties in some of the highest, coolest sites of Ribera del Duero. His focus is on recovering the older voice of the region: centenarian vines, organic farming, native yeasts and patient work in a cold underground cellar. In the vineyard he avoids chemical inputs and pushes for freshness rather than overripeness; in the cellar he uses gentle handling, long fermentations, old barrels, no fining or filtering, and little to no sulfur. The wines are direct, savory and quietly radical for Ribera del Duero, shaped less by power than by altitude, limestone, clay and the memory of how the area tasted before modern fashion took over.