Bodegas Godelia is the dream of a family with a passion for agriculture and for the creation of a legacy and a wine heritage in El Bierzo.

Bodegas Godelia is a moment on the Camino de Santiago. A moment described by an unforgettable pilgrim one day, excited and filled with enthusiasm. For him, Godelia is a beautiful flower from El Bierzo: the flower of Pieros. Those flowers face westward looking for the pilgrimage route to Santiago and the sun’s setting behind the mountains that guard the El Bierzo valley. Searching on their backs, backpacks full of emotions that remain carved into the memory of the traveller. We celebrate it with our environment, with the emotions of the landscape and our traditions. The way we know best: taking great care with our wines.

El Bierzo is the key point in El Camino of our winery.

Bodegas Godelia is located in El Bierzo, a unique landscape and exceptional environment for winemaking. Located in the northwest of Spain, El Bierzo is a region surrounded by mountains that forms a large valley cut through by the Sil River, with a wide array of soils and orientations in its vineyards. The richness of the soil, combined with the age of the vineyard, makes it a unique place to produce high quality wines.

Right on the Camino de Santiago, the winery is located on your route through El Bierzo. Literally. The French Way of Saint James goes past our front door. It is the exact point where the countdown to the last 200 km begins and the pilgrim’s final stage before arriving in Galicia. At the winery we are delighted to accompany you on this journey. This is not by chance, since El Camino brought with it a legacy to which the winery wants to pay tribute. This special location in El Bierzo has given the winery the self-satisfaction of carefully growing the native grape varieties: Mencía, Godello, and Doña Blanca. Our aim is always to transmit terroir, sensitivity, and elegance in our wines.

Godelia’s great virtue lies in the fact that it was born as a passion at the end of 2009. It is a love for nature that led the García Rodríguez family, the founders of the winery, to give an outlet to their enthusiasm for viticulture in El Bierzo. It is a dream come true, a winery in El Bierzo that creates value and a future for the region, a legacy through its wines. It’s about not being satisfied until you create a masterpiece, with a healthy amount of excitement, dedication, and effort. All this, to achieve excellence.

The fruit of meticulous work and careful attention is a wine that tells pleasant stories about a close bond, in harmony and with deep respect, between man and land. A beautiful land, El Bierzo, with exceptional qualities for wine craftsmanship.
From its humid slate soils, Godelia works to make the best version of its grape varieties sprout: Godello and Mencía. Two words that are essence and origin, identity and personality… the soul of the Winery.

Bodegas Godelia was founded to produce wines from EL Bierzo with the utmost honesty and expressiveness. In accordance with tradition, but with constant innovation as a maxim. We try to extract the greatest potential from the grapes we grow, their greatest expression. In addition to the wines which have traditionally been made in El Bierzo, we seek new opportunities for our grapes to express themselves in new and unique ways. The result is wines that tell stories about El Bierzo, its customs, its people, and its gastronomy.

The wines of El Bierzo are part of the land, of history, and of the future. The land is present in them through the nuances transmitted to them by the clay, pebble, and slate soils. The land is also present through the effort and care the vineyards have been worked with for generations, as a legacy or inheritance that is a family treasure.

El Bierzo’s wines are unique wines with personality, different, with high culinary potential. A wine tells the story of where it comes from and how it has been made, but it also tells us what the gastronomy of the region it comes from is. That is why we explore all the possibilities and make different wines to suit different situations, dishes, and moments. The key is to enjoy the moment and the company.

We make our wines as a way to enjoy El Bierzo, to feed the soul. A way to tell stories and share moments and feelings.

The Mencía grape is a unique variety that allows us to produce fresh and fruity wines as well as very complex and mineral wines. It is in the vineyard that Mencía forms its character. Age, soil, orientation, and work in the vineyard is the first step. This way we have the opportunity to produce wines with very different profiles, from Viernes to Libamus, including Godelia Mencía and Godelia Selección Mencía. Different versions of a single variety. All of them different, varietal, unique.

The Godello grape has always been the winery’s choice: its potential for making wines other than the traditional types is a value that we learned from the beginning as well as the possibilities that it offers for new productions. The Godello grape also depends on the vineyard in which it is grown, which is why the range of opportunities is extended with each different plot. For that reason we can produce such different and special wines. From Godelia Cuvée, like our Godelia Godello with Doña Blanca, to Godelia Selección Godello.

The wine is the result of our work, of our effort. It is the materialisation of a dream after each harvest. The final toast after the work we have done.