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.
As little as four or five weeks ago I was writing about vine vigour, when a combination of alternating periods of warm, sunny weather followed by heavy rain had precipitated quite intensive growth in our vines. Today that picture has changed somewhat. This all changed at the beginning of July when we experienced some quite […]
OK, so I should start by saying that today’s post about ‘Black Holes’ has nothing to do with the James Webb Space Telescope and the plethora of discoveries that have started to unfold since its launch. Believe it or not this is to do with Spanish banking! Some years ago, when an importer purchased wine […]
In the last week or two, despite the baking temperatures, we have been clearing the corner of one of our vineyards. Yes, this did involve cutting a few trees, but I should emphasise that we did seek the appropriate permissions, and that the trees that we cut were mostly eucalyptus, not indigenous to Galicia, considered […]
