Not your usual mid-week wine

Wed 23 Jun 21: mid-week it’s normally Chilean Merlot or a Primitivo so that’s the first deviation from the normal. Second is the presentation of a Spanish wine … determined to make a brand of it. And in a screw cap. Very pleasant.

From Wine Anorak: Paco & Lola is an interesting producer: old world doing new world (I know these distinctions are outdated now, but they still have a little utility). It’s a new co-op, founded in 2005, initially with a bunch of grape growers in O Salnés in Rías Baixas. They formed the Sociedad Cooperativa Vitivinícola Arousana, and it now has over 400 members, and is the largest cooperative in Rías Baixas. They source from just over 200 hectares, split into 1800 small plots. In addition to Albariño from Salnés they are now making a red from Navarra, under the label ‘Paco by Paco & Lola’, which indicates that they may have brought the grapes or wine in from outside their cooperative basis.