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Green Spain (Galicia & Txakoli)

Green Spain groups Atlantic Galicia with the Basque areas of Txakoli. Rías Baixas is home to Albariño and five sub-regions, including cool, wet Val do Salnés and inland Ribeira do Ulla. Txakoli is produced in three Basque designations: Getaria, Bizkaia and Álava.

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Green Spain (Galicia & Txakoli), Spain
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Atlas locationGreen Spain (Galicia & Txakoli) · Spain38.39° N · 1.11° W

Green Spain groups Galicia with the Basque areas that produce Txakoli. In Rías Baixas, damp Atlantic conditions and high rainfall sit alongside more than 2,200 sunshine hours. Albariño can ripen fully while retaining medium-to-high natural acidity and an aromatic profile. The five sub-regions range from cool, wet Val do Salnés, with coastal granite and rocky ground, to inland, alluvial Ribeira do Ulla. High parras help keep air moving through the vines in this wet climate.

Txakoli is made in the Basque designations of Getaria, Bizkaia and Álava. Its white wines bring fruit, flower and herb aromas, fresh acidity and a slightly bitter finish. Basque growers began the organized recovery of Hondarrabi Zuri and Hondarrabi Beltza in the 1980s.

Inside the region

2 named areas

Each guide keeps its place within Green Spain (Galicia & Txakoli) clear, with a direct route back to the map.

  1. 01Green Spain (Txakoli)5 producersGreen Spain (Txakoli) sits within Green Spain (Galicia & Txakoli), Spain.
  2. 02Rías Baixas26 producersRías Baixas sits within Green Spain (Galicia & Txakoli), Spain.

Producer profiles

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  • Bodegas FillaboaSingle-estate Rías Baixas producer farming 50 hectares of Albariño across 12 south-facing plots in Condado do Tea, the only Galician member of Grandes Pagos de España. Two wines, no oak, no purchased fruit.
  • Bodegas GodevalBodegas Godeval bottled the first commercial monovarietal Godello in 1986, founding a revival that transformed Valdeorras. Based in the converted 12th-century Xagoaza monastery in the Sil River valley, the estate produces four 100% Godello wines from slate and granite parcels, ranging from fresh stainless-steel whites to old-vine and barrel-aged bottlings.
  • Bodegas Joaquin RebolledoA four-generation family in the Valdeorras D.O. of inland Galicia that kept Godello when almost everyone else abandoned it. The white is stainless-steel Godello with three months on lees: dry, mineral, stone-fruited. The red Mencía is dark-berried with elderflower, cocoa spice, and the coarse slate tannins of a grape that has never been tamed.
  • Bodegas La ValAlbariño estate in the O Rosal sub-zone of Rías Baixas, farming exclusively from three named vineyard properties since 1985 and fermenting with indigenous wild yeasts. Acquired by CVNE in March 2023.
  • Bodegas LanBodegas Lan is a large Rioja producer based in Fuenmayor, making Tempranillo-led crianza and reserva wines from the 72-hectare Viña Lanciano estate on the Ebro river, alongside a Galician white wine operation in O Rosal through its Santiago Ruiz subsidiary.
  • Bodegas LangaFamily-owned producer in DO Calatayud founded in 1982, operating across two estates and producing still wines and Cava.
  • Bodegas Martín CódaxCooperative winery in Cambados, Val do Salnés, Rías Baixas; 100% Albariño across six cellar-method tiers from stainless steel to traditional-method sparkling aged 38 months on lees.
  • Bodegas MileniumBodegas Milenium is Bodegas Gallegas' table wine and Wine of Spain division, with Elara, a white Ribeiro wine from Treixadura and Godello.
  • Bodegas Pazo CilleiroAtlantic Albariño producer in Val do Salnés, Rías Baixas, coordinating over 250 independent winegrowers across 80-plus hectares of pergola-trained vines beside the 11th-century Armenteira monastery.
  • Bodegas Rectoral de Amandi S.A.U.Ribeira Sacra producer behind Matilda Nieves Mencía, a red Mencía wine with acidity lifted by vineyard altitude.
  • Bodegas VegamarBodegas Vegamar is a Valencia Alto Turia bodega with owned vineyards, a Rioja Crianza, and a Rías Baixas Albariño.
  • Bodegas VetusToro estate founded in 2003 by the Antón family, farming 20 hectares of Tinta de Toro on the high plateau of the Zamora DO and producing three red tiers from approachable entry wine to 2,000-bottle pre-phylloxera Celsus.
  • Bodegas Y Vinedos Vina CartinA Val do Salnés Albariño producer founded in 1977, farming 20 hectares across granite and alluvial parcels near Lantaño in Rías Baixas. Five labels, all from a single native variety, with Atlantic freshness and a mineral spine from the valley floor.
  • Bodegas ZarateA 300-year-old Albariño estate in Val do Salnés, farming ungrafted granite parcels without tilling since 1994, with three wines that show what lees contact and vineyard age do to the same grape.
  • Compañía de Vinos Telmo RodríguezTelmo Rodríguez and Pablo Eguzkiza began with old Garnacha in Navarra and built a Spanish portfolio around small parcels, native grapes, local growers and recovered vineyards such as A Falcoeira in Ourense.
  • Dominio do BibeiBibei valley producer with Mencía led reds, Godello led whites, a gravity moved cellar, and Ribeiro white Lalume.
  • HGA BodegasThe independent group behind Altos de Torona, the largest privately owned wine operation in Rías Baixas, making a varietal Albariño and an award-winning Rosal blend from O Rosal's granitic slopes.
  • Quinta de CouseloAtlantic-influenced white wines from O Rosal, where Albariño meets Caíño Blanco, Loureira and measured lees ageing.
  • Rafael PalaciosA Valdeorras Godello project founded in 2004, built from old Bibei Valley vineyards on granite and quartz schist between 620 and 740 metres.

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