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Buy Wine from Pedro Méndez
The Pedro Méndez winery, located in Val do Salnés, Galicia, is one of the most personal voices of Spanish Atlantic wine. Without large investments or family inheritance, his project is born from the vineyard, from the humid and saline soil, and from a precise reading of the landscape. His work is contained, reflective. And, above all, silent: it is the wines that speak.
Small plots, big decisions
Pedro Méndez works with micro-plots, minimal cultivation units that he treats as independent organisms. Each plot has its own rhythm, its own maturation, its own history. Some are planted on northeast-facing slopes, others in lower areas, exposed to the sea mist. Their methodology is based on minimal intervention and plot-based vinification for each origin. There are no recipes, only decisions adjusted to the reality of each vintage.
In the winery, zero make-up
In the winery he avoids any technical make-up. No new wood is used, oenological additives are discarded and indigenous yeasts are used. He uses neutral tanks -stainless steel, amphorae, old barrels -as mere fermentation vehicles. His aim is not to create wines that impress through exuberance, but rather to convey a pure reading of the soil, the climate and the year.
What happens in the vineyard, stays in the glass
Pedro Méndez rarely appears in the media. In an informal interview, he commented: "You can spend the whole year looking after the vineyard with precision, and in 15 minutes make a decision that changes everything". On another occasion, a storm forced him to harvest an entire plot in just three hours. That must fermented without temperature control and became one of his most structured wines.
A DO that doesn't need labels
Although many producers in the area make wines under the Rías Baixas DO, Pedro Méndez has chosen to work outside it. Not out of rebellion, but out of coherence. His wines do not fit the regulatory mould, nor do they seek official validation. He prefers them to speak for themselves, without regulatory labels. He does not emphasise whether a wine is on lees, aged or aged in oak barrels. For him, the language of wine should be linked to the vineyard, not to regulations. Each label is a small essay on place and time.
When less is more
His way of working has begun to attract sommeliers, specialised shops and wine distributors who are looking for products with a story of their own. His limited production is beginning to stand out in circuits where the singular is more valuable than the recognisable. Pedro is not looking for expansion. He is interested in depth, not breadth.
Against the current of commercial Albariño
In a panorama saturated with Albariños with easy freshness and tropical aromas, Pedro Méndez proposes a return to the essential: purity, origin and personality without concessions. He believes that identity is built from difference. From the concrete. From the minimum
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Buy Wine from Pedro Méndez
The Pedro Méndez winery, located in Val do Salnés, Galicia, is one of the most personal voices of Spanish Atlantic wine. Without large investments or family inheritance, his project is born from the vineyard, from the humid and saline soil, and from a precise reading of the landscape. His work is contained, reflective. And, above all, silent: it is the wines that speak.
Small plots, big decisions
Pedro Méndez works with micro-plots, minimal cultivation units that he treats as independent organisms. Each plot has its own rhythm, its own maturation, its own history. Some are planted on northeast-facing slopes, others in lower areas, exposed to the sea mist. Their methodology is based on minimal intervention and plot-based vinification for each origin. There are no recipes, only decisions adjusted to the reality of each vintage.
In the winery, zero make-up
In the winery he avoids any technical make-up. No new wood is used, oenological additives are discarded and indigenous yeasts are used. He uses neutral tanks -stainless steel, amphorae, old barrels -as mere fermentation vehicles. His aim is not to create wines that impress through exuberance, but rather to convey a pure reading of the soil, the climate and the year.
What happens in the vineyard, stays in the glass
Pedro Méndez rarely appears in the media. In an informal interview, he commented: "You can spend the whole year looking after the vineyard with precision, and in 15 minutes make a decision that changes everything". On another occasion, a storm forced him to harvest an entire plot in just three hours. That must fermented without temperature control and became one of his most structured wines.
A DO that doesn't need labels
Although many producers in the area make wines under the Rías Baixas DO, Pedro Méndez has chosen to work outside it. Not out of rebellion, but out of coherence. His wines do not fit the regulatory mould, nor do they seek official validation. He prefers them to speak for themselves, without regulatory labels. He does not emphasise whether a wine is on lees, aged or aged in oak barrels. For him, the language of wine should be linked to the vineyard, not to regulations. Each label is a small essay on place and time.
When less is more
His way of working has begun to attract sommeliers, specialised shops and wine distributors who are looking for products with a story of their own. His limited production is beginning to stand out in circuits where the singular is more valuable than the recognisable. Pedro is not looking for expansion. He is interested in depth, not breadth.
Against the current of commercial Albariño
In a panorama saturated with Albariños with easy freshness and tropical aromas, Pedro Méndez proposes a return to the essential: purity, origin and personality without concessions. He believes that identity is built from difference. From the concrete. From the minimum