Monterrei's distinction as a D.O. lies partly in its prevailing granitic soils, but also in its climate, which features extreme diurnal temperature ranges that can reach 30 degrees Celsius in the dog days of summer. There are but 25 estates in the appellation, and ours is one of the best: Fragas do Lecer is a member of the Grandes Pagos Gallegos de Viticultura Tradicional collective, founded by the Boo-Rivero family, who had been farming indigenous varieties in Monterrei across three generations before the winery existed. The estate's focus is old-vine Godello and Mencía (some of the oldest in the region), hand-harvested in small lots, with production deliberately limited. Each September at harvest, crows (corvos) descend to take ripe fruit for themselves, a natural act of selection the family found worth honoring rather than lamenting, and the origin of the Fraga do Corvo name. The winemaker is José Manuel Martínez Juste, owner of Quinta de Couselo in Rías Baixas and technical director of the Grandes Pagos Gallegos collective, one of the more authoritative figures working in Galician wine today.