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Bodegas Alan de Val: Champions of Galicia's Forgotten Grapes

Next in our Meet Our Suppliers series: three brothers in inland Galicia who are bringing native grapes back from near-extinction.

Family-run since 1993 and champions of Galicia's forgotten grapes.

Alan de Val sits in A Rúa, in the Valdeorras valley of inland Galicia, where the river Sil carves through slate and granite. The name says a lot: Alan is a Celtic word for "harmony", Val comes from Valdeorras. It was founded in 1993 by the three Sánchez Rodríguez brothers but the family's roots in vine-growing and grafting go back generations, to before phylloxera swept through.

One rule has never changed: they work only their own vineyards. Alongside the region's stars, Godello and Mencía, they've become known for something braver  rescuing native Galician grapes like Brancellao, Caíño and Sousón that had almost vanished, and bottling them as serious, single-variety wines.

This is Atlantic Spain in a glass: mineral whites, fresh and elegant reds, and a handful of rare bottles you won't easily find anywhere else. Exactly the kind of Spain we started The Wine Hustle to share.

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