The Stony Brook University Center for Wine, Food, and Culture hosted a major international symposium titled “The Art of Balance: Cool Climate/Maritime Wines in a Global Context,” at its Southampton campus on Long Island. The two-day symposium featured advanced educational presentations and wine tastings led by prominent winemakers and vineyard managers from top wineries in cool climate/maritime winegrowing regions around the world.
Tuesday, August 5 Part 4
Katia Alvarez, Winemaker, Martin Códax (Rías Baixas, Spain)
Albarino: An Atlantic Grape
A pioneer in her own right, not only in the highly recognized area for white wine in the Rias Baixas region but also as a red wine specialist in Bierzo and Rioja, Alvarez took her degree in Agriculture, with a focus on white grapes, at the University of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia, and then studied winemaking in Logrono, the centre of Riojas’s red wine region. She has worked harvests in Rias Baixas, Bierzo, Rioja and Chile. Since 2005 she has been with Bodegas Martin Codax, were she is both the production manager and winemaker.
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