Childhood experiences shape our personality and we can not deny that we spent the rest of our lives bringing back the emotions that originated at specific times of our childhood. Winemaking and everything it involved throughout the year, was part of the world that surrounded José Antonio Lopez’s childhood. 

José Antonio is one of the winemakers who is leading a quality revolution in the Rias Baixas. Tricó is out to prove that Albarino in the Rias Baixas is capable of achieving the same mineral-inflected greatness as Austrian Riesling of Loire Chenin. Based in the southernmost sub zone in Condado do Tea on the eastern side of the Mino River. The terroir allows plenty of sunlight and there is a pronounced thermal contrast between day and night which produces high-quality Albarino. 

Albariño grape is a native grape variety of Galicia possibly coming from some wild vines grown by primitive groups of people from this region. The Miño River is considered to be the father of the Albariño grape which has been growing in its banks ever since the Middle Ages.

Trico’s Albarino grapes come from 10 hectares of estate only produced fruit with granitic soil. Their focus is in the vineyards based on the simplicity and keeping things as natural as possible. “Enology on the field” is José Antonio’s term to pay the most attention and the most precise care to allow them to obtain grapes so wine producing can be the least interventionist.

COMPAÑÍA DE VINOS TRICÓ is a very personal project that takes its name from the expression used in Galicia to name a late child that comes in the family. Tricó is not only the youngest of all siblings but also the unexpected one, and the one that ends up being pampered and being the family joy.