Quinta do Estranxeiro

Eulogio Pomares is famed for his ground-breaking work at his family’s Rías Baixas’ estate, Bodegas Zárate. His single vineyard Albariños there helped redefine the variety’s ultimate potential, and he was also at the vanguard in recovering the region’s once-prominent red varieties.

A proud Galician, Eulogio was further enticed by the immense potential he saw in the forbidding mountains of nearby Ribeira Sacra. Together with his wife, Rebeca Montero, he launched a new project, Quinta do Estranxeiro, there in 2019 that is already adding to his formidable legacy.

Eulogio and Rebeca found real kindred spirits in Ribeira Sacra’s early pioneers, and the group often shared ideas as they each developed their own wines. It was not until 2019 that the couple began to produce their own wine in Ribeira Sacra. But having known the region’s key players for years, they knew just where to look when launching their own label. They work with two primary sites for the Ribeira Sacra red, both on steeply terraced hillsides featuring 50+-year-old, bush-trained vines. The younger white vineyards are mostly trained on wires to help fight mildew pressure in this damp climate. They farm all their vineyards organically – an enormous commitment in Galicia’s humid, often rainy climate. For both wines, the opportunity to blend fruit from divergent terroirs gives the couple opportunity to maximize their wines’ final balance and complexity.