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Winemaker Paula\u00a0Fandi\u00f1o<\/p><\/div>\n

Mar de Frades is a winery located in the up and coming Rias Baixas wine region of northwest Spain.\u00a0Mar de Frades, established in 2007, is located in the Saln\u00e9s valley and close to the Arousa estuary. The winery features the Albari\u00f1o grape variety.<\/p>\n

In addition to Albari\u00f1o still wine, Mar de Frades is also producing a 100 percent Brut Nature made with 100 percent Albari\u00f1o grapes. This is produced with the\u00a0 classic M\u00e9thode.<\/p>\n

Mar de Frades location:<\/p>\n

Finca Vali\u00f1as, Lg Arosa 16, 36637
\nMeis, Pontevedra (Spain)<\/p>\n

In response to a series of questions, Winemaker Paula Fandi\u00f1o kindly responded.<\/p>\n

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  1. What are your most enjoyable aspects of winemaking?<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    \u201cWhat I like the most is that every day is different. It is a special process, global and unique every year, in which you work to get the best of each grape and translate it into a wine.\u201d<\/p>\n

    2. How and when did your wine journey begin?<\/p>\n

    \u201cThroughout the year, the works are different, in spring and summer, I am waiting for our vines to give their best aromatic version, in autumn and winter, I work with the fermentations and maintaining \u00a0all the aromas to get the best expression of our wines .<\/p>\n

    Wine is part of my life, something that has always been present in my house, in my surroundings, something that attracts me from a young age without knowing the reason why … after that, that feeling is transformed into passion, that is my case. I am an agronomist Ingeneer, because I understood that the principle and the base is the vineyard, after that I got specialized in the production of wines in the winery.\u201d<\/p>\n

    3.\u00a0Why did you decide to start making wine?<\/i><\/p>\n

    \u2018If you like something, you must go for it, so I understood that the global training in winemaking and marketing was necessary, and without even realizing it, after working in a vineyard for some years, I started to work in the winery, first learning, smelling and testing and subsequently directing the production of wines of various types.\u201d<\/p>\n

    4. How many hectares of grapes are you growing? Which varieties are you growing?
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    \u201cWe work only with the native and best adapted variety of the area, the Albari\u00f1o grape. We cultivate 35 ha (86.5 acres) of own Albari\u00f1o vineyards. We have plantations of 40, 20 and 10 years old age, in addition we also work in another 125 ha (309 acres), also of the albari\u00f1o variety, with which we elaborate our Mar de Frades wine.\u201d<\/p>\n

    5. What do you wish you knew when you started making wine that you now know?<\/i><\/p>\n

    \u201cMy knowledge has been growing as steeply as the application of such knowledge to making wine; therefore, I\u00b4m not missing anything I had to have known before. Being alert to your environment, to what happens to the vineyard, to the strong influence of the Atlantic climate on the vineyard are elements that give character to my knowledge.\u201d<\/p>\n

    6. To what do you contribute your success as a winemaker?<\/i><\/p>\n

    \u201cFundamentally to the rigor in the work, to the small details that mark the difference between wines. The care and dedication that all the team puts in the time of obtaining and bottling our best wines. It is the commitment, together with the necessary facilities and knowledge, which causes our wines to be excellent.\u201d<\/p>\n

    7. Albari\u00f1o is a very food friendly wine. What types of foods do you like to pair with Albari\u00f1o wine?<\/i><\/p>\n

    \u201cBecause of the freshness and salinity of the wines, the Asian food pairs perfectly, both the raw fish and the slightly spicy dishes, are perfect. Nor do I forget the seafood that comes from Galician coasts: scallops, clams, oysters, barnacles …. It is a sure hit to harmonize with Mar de Frades.\u201d<\/p>\n

    We wish Winemaker Paula\u00a0Fandi\u00f1o and Mar de Frades winery a wonderful future!<\/p>\n

    Cheers,
    \nKathy<\/p>\n