Harvest 2025 Totals 75.8 Million Kilos, One of the Most Abundant in Galicia’s History

2025 was far from a typical year, marked by drought across Galicia, forest fires that raged through Valdeorras and parts of Ribeira Sacra in August, and the ongoing global decline in demand for red wine. It was also hugely unequal across wine regions. Ribeira Sacra and Ribeiro recorded some of the smallest harvests in their histories, while Rías Baixas and Monterrei broke records and harvested more grapes than ever. 

With a total of 75.8 million kilos of grapes brought in, this year is one of the most abundant vintages in Galicia’s history. 

More than half of those kilos come from Rías Baixas—47.5 million, to be exact. As usual, the vast majority was Albariño (46 million kilos), with over half of total production coming from the Val do Salnés subzone. Caíño Branco, Loureira, Godello, as well as a teeny tiny quantity of the newly accepted Ratiño rounded out the white grapes, and Sousón (63,073 kilos) led the way among red grapes, along with Caíño Tinto and Espadeiro.

Monterrei brought in just over 8 million kilos, a million more than last year. The August wildfires had very little effect on production, and the DO’s president attributed the increase in production to new plantings—total vineyards in Monterrei have grown from 795 to 852 hectares. Production is mostly white, and most of that is Godello, with a modest 1.7 million kilos of red wine.

Speaking of Godello… Valdeorras, the region most affected by this summer’s wildfires, brought in 7.5 million kilos of grapes, six million of which were Godello.

In Ribeira Sacra, although red wine crisis-motivated growers are beginning to jump on the white wine train, red varieties still dominate, making up 3.5 million of the 4.6 million kilos harvested. Production is about 200,000 kg less than last year, a modest descent given the hand-wringing that’s been going on about the need to reduce excess wine.

If there’s hand-wringing to be done about any DO, it should be about Ribeiro, which saw production plummet to 8.1 million kilos down from more than 11 million kilos last year. The regulatory council said that drought was partly responsible for the decline, although the decrease in growers and abandoned vineyards could have something to do with it too… but more on that to come.