Bodegas Castro Martin is a family-owned business dedicated to making Albariño of the highest possible quality. The current building was constructed in 1981 and inaugurated with the ’82 vintage. Built by Domingo Martin-Morales the bodega is now managed by his daughter Angela Martin.
After the catastrophe of hail about a month ago, the second half of May provided us with more favourable conditions. After a dry, warm sunny fortnight during the second half of the month, our flowering passed off without further incident. Now that we have fruit set, we are perhaps seeing some of the side effects […]
As if our recent problems with the weather, more specifically hail, weren’t bad enough, we have now suffered a failure in the bodega infrastructure. A broken underground pipe. There was no apparent reason for this to happen but was probably simply down to it’s age. The problem was that rather than bursting upwards in a […]
Yesterday evening our vineyards in and around the village of Barrantes were hit by a storm… unfortunately this included a pretty heavy hailstorm. The main road of the village was partially flooded, and at least 3 or 4 hectares of our vines were damaged by hail. Of course, it is too early to know exactly […]
