Sense of Place extra: The Parra gallega vine training system of Rías Baixas

The rain in Spain falls mostly on... Galicia. And that’s part of the reason why grapegrowers employ the parra gallega - the local riff on pergola-trained vines that makes use of the region’s abundant granite - in their lush Albariño vineyards.

I recently caught up with my friend Diego Ríos, the Chile-born winemaker at the helm at Bodegas Granbazán, at the iconic Finca Tremoedo just outside Cambados in the Val do Salnés subregion of Rías Baixas.

In this short video, he explains the whys and wherefores of this system of canopy management.