Sub-area in the Spanish DO area Rías Baixas; see there.
DO area (Rías Bajas in Spanish) in the province of Pontevedra in the southwest of the northwestern Spanish region of Galicia on the Atlantic coast bordering Portugal. The name means "lower bays" and is the designation for four narrow sea bays reaching deep into the land, formed from flooded valleys of the Ría de Muros y Noia, Ría de Arousa, Ría de Pontevedra and Ría de Vigo rivers. There are five subzones, all dominated by the white grape variety Albariño (Alvarinho), which occupies 95% of the vineyards:
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