The best white wine

RECOGNISED as the Best Wine of Spain in 2022 by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Ramón do Casar winery’s location may come as a surprise.

Riding on the success of last year, the González family, wants to make the leap to the international market and continue to conquer palates around the world with its vintages, according to a news source.

In the middle of the last century, Ramón González emigrated from Galicia to Venezuela to find a better future. Proud of his land and his origins, he always kept the link with the place where he grew up. With the money he saved on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, he invested in farms and land near Galicia’s Miño River that he himself worked when he was younger. The goal: to build a winery near Ourense.

In 2000, Ramón’s three sons, Moncho, Etelvino and Javier González Sabucedo, took the reins of the business with the aim of producing ‘the best possible white wines.’ They grouped all those vineyards together and acquired new ones until they reached a total of 25 hectares to build ‘a good winery’ where they could make ‘a great wine.’

To achieve this, they relied on the experience of the wine expert, Pablo Estévez and the help of the Santander Bank.

Ramón Do Casar proudly, and quite rightly announced their achievement on Facebook: ‘Best in Show en los Decanter World Wine Awards’.

Galicia’s Ribeira Sacra (Sacred River), so named due to the many monasteries which populate the area, has a long and ancient history of wine production going back to Roman times.

The two most prevalent varieties are white wines such as Godello and Albariño; and Mencia, a rich fullbodied red.