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| Community Tasting Notes (average 88.9 pts. and median of 89 pts. in 18 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by LaiJien on 4/12/2021 & rated 89 points: Pale gold – lime, peach, unripe pineapple. Medium acid, 13.0% ABV, medium- body, medium- intensity, medium finish. Paired well with halibut.
Hand-picked grapes, cool-fermented, on lees for three months, unoaked. (672 views) | | | Tasted by cct on 9/28/2020 & rated 88 points: A fresh nose of sweet tart, quince, oyster shell, citrus pith and white florals. Steely, clean, and crisp on the palate with bright acidity. It's linear and focused, with more oyster shell, saline, and bitter (in a good way) notes on the bone dry finish. A well made, refreshing wine more about acid and rocks than fruit. Would be great with fresh shellfish. I would not age it further due more so to its closure than any inherent lack of quality inside the bottle. Very good. (1070 views) | | | Tasted by KE7MPN on 7/13/2020 & rated 85 points: Typical albirino. Smooth and easy to drink. (727 views) | | | Tasted by Heynetty on 6/27/2020 & rated 91 points: A: Medium lemon
N:Medium nose (it was cold), white peach, banana, peach pit, pear, salted lemon, JASMINE, ROSES and wet stone.
P: Dry, medium (+) acidity , phenolic bitterness, medium alcohol., medium body, pronounced intensity, medium (+) finish
C: Balance of fruit ripeness and acidity. This gets full marks for intensity and half marks for length. However, this is the most complex Albariño that I have ever had.I think its an outstanding wine and an excellent example of not just the typicity but what the grape is able to do. The florals here are astounding. (763 views) | | | Tasted by Teamrehfeld on 4/3/2020 & rated 90 points: I liked this wine. Minerally saline Lemon lime. Quit good. (1227 views) | | | Tasted by Neecies on 3/7/2020: In a great place right now, better in fact than last August when I bought a few. Fruit's more developed but it's still taut and dry. (621 views) | | | Tasted by Neecies on 8/18/2019: Rich yet dry, more minerally than fruity. Great food wine. (847 views) | | | Tasted by Ben Christiansen on 8/10/2019: With salty minerality. (953 views) | | | Tasted by wilhelm.kurt on 7/19/2019 & rated 91 points: Mineral and salt in the nose. Crisp and fruity. First day of a heat wave wine. Wonderful. (712 views) | | | Tasted by ralaspech on 7/6/2019 & rated 89 points: Citrus and mineral nose and palate. Surprisingly creamy mouthfeel for the acidity. Paired well with sausage and cheese plates, and bruschetta. Bought a bottle to take home from Market Ave. Wine Bar. (483 views) | | | Tasted by mattym19 on 6/1/2019 & rated 90 points: Bright and fresh nose; hints of lemon peel and grass with a wave of salty ocean. Palate is crisp and green with more lemon peel and hints of flowers. Perfect acidity to pair with seafood (especially shellfish), fried and raw. (520 views) | | | Tasted by tombiro on 5/24/2019 & rated 87 points: Good qpr. Lovely with meat and peppers. Tricky nose, great mouthfeel. Other comments about salinity are dead on. (397 views) | | | Tasted by kronfeld on 1/11/2019: Tangy and astringent, faint apple. Straight-ahead but lingers and invites some contemplation. (605 views) | | | Tasted by BlancdeBlanc on 9/26/2018 & rated 87 points: Light citrus, a bit flat, frizzante, A lot of saline (524 views) |
| By Josh Raynolds
Vinous, Spain’s Northern Regions Keep It Cool (Mar 2019) (3/1/2019)
(Agro De Bazán Albariño Granbazán Etiqueta Verde (rías Baixas) White) Subscribe to see review text. | By James Suckling
JamesSuckling.com (6/22/2018)
(Granbazán Albariño Rías Baixas Etiqueta Verde, White, Spain) Subscribe to see review text. | By Paul Zitarelli
Full Pull, Full Pull Plan Ahead (4/1/2019)
(Granbazan Albarino Rias Baixas Etiqueta Verde) Hello friends. Wine consumption has a cyclical nature. We spend entire holiday seasons toasting with sparkling wine; stay warm in the winter months with big, beefy reds; relax into summers full of rosé. When we taste wine here at Full Pull, we try to plan around what people want to be drinking. However, it doesn’t always work that way. We’ll find a one-day-only deal on Champagne in July and have to stockpile it until the time is right. We have to sell our favorite rosés in March to make sure we have enough to drink in July. And sometimes, like with today’s wine, we’ll be approached with unbelievably good, well-priced white wine during Seattle’s snowiest winter ever and choose to squirrel it away until spring. James Suckling: Copyrighted material withheld. This wine began its life with a $20 tag; the current West Coast low is $19.99. We were able to secure today’s TPU tag by buying out the entire remaining stock in the Seattle market. So at this point, we basically have a western Washington exclusive on this wine. This Albariño comes from the grape’s indigenous home on the Iberian peninsula. Just over the northern border of Portugal sits Galicia, a cooler part of Spain that resembles Irish hillsides more than Castilian plains. In the southwestern coastal region of this lush countryside we find Rias Baixas, a Denominación de Origen made up for four estuaries with five distinct sub-regions. It’s here, where mineral-rich soils are surrounded by ocean sea and freshwater rivers, that Albariño grows its best. Granbazán came up during the 1980s, a time when Rias Baixas was first being legally recognized. Winemaking in this region dates back to Roman times, but modernization really took hold when Spain joined the EU in 1988. Even as a new winery, Granbazán was instrumental in the quality revolution that took place in the late 20th century. They now farm a total of 17 hectares in Val do Salnés, the original sub-region of Rías Baixas and the birthplace of Albariño. It’s located on the Atlantic coast, surrounding the town of Cambados, and is known as the coolest, wettest sub-region. The soil here is rocky granite with alluvial top-soil, and the Pergola-trained vines get intense influence from the nearby ocean breeze. Etiqueta Verde—Green Label—is one of Granbazån’s most popular bottlings and a step up from their entry level bottling, Contrapunto. 100% Albarino, the grapes are hand-harvested, de-stemmed, fermented with native yeast, and aged for at least four months on the lees before bottling. The listed alcohol is 13%. This bottle opens with a nose that’s fully green: Granny Smith apples, green papaya, juicy limes, grass, budding flowers, and fresh mint. The palate runs vivid, brimming with saline acidity and minerality. It’s palate staining in its vibrancy; balance exists with just a touch of palate weight from those months spent on the lees. The finish is lengthy, wholly influenced by the Atlantic’s sea breeze. If we are truly all tied to the ocean, as JFK once said, this bottle is a great way to pay homage to the sea from whence we came. | By Paul Zitarelli
Full Pull, Full Pull Plan Ahead (3/29/2019)
(Granbazan Albarino Rias Baixas Etiqueta Verde) Hello friends. The world of new-school rosé does not favor the spontaneous. Long-time list members know: if you want to be drinking the best local rosés in July and August, you can’t purchase them in July and August. They’ll be long sold out by then. The trick is to purchase in March and April, stash them away in a dark closet or under the bed, and wait for that glorious, all-too-short PacNW summer when Seattle gets like nine weeks in a row of abundant sunshine and we all take to Lake Washington like a pod of sunbathing seals. Is this the ideal way to purchase rosé? No, but we won’t make the rules. And this particular rule is never more true than when Tranche’s Pink Pape is released every spring. James Suckling: Copyrighted material withheld. This wine began its life with a $20 tag; the current West Coast low is $19.99. We were able to secure today’s TPU tag by buying out the entire remaining stock in the Seattle market. So at this point, we basically have a western Washington exclusive on this wine. This Albariño comes from the grape’s indigenous home on the Iberian peninsula. Just over the northern border of Portugal sits Galicia, a cooler part of Spain that resembles Irish hillsides more than Castilian plains. In the southwestern coastal region of this lush countryside we find Rias Baixas, a Denominación de Origen made up for four estuaries with five distinct sub-regions. It’s here, where mineral-rich soils are surrounded by ocean sea and freshwater rivers, that Albariño grows its best. Granbazán came up during the 1980s, a time when Rias Baixas was first being legally recognized. Winemaking in this region dates back to Roman times, but modernization really took hold when Spain joined the EU in 1988. Even as a new winery, Granbazán was instrumental in the quality revolution that took place in the late 20th century. They now farm a total of 17 hectares in Val do Salnés, the original sub-region of Rías Baixas and the birthplace of Albariño. It’s located on the Atlantic coast, surrounding the town of Cambados, and is known as the coolest, wettest sub-region. The soil here is rocky granite with alluvial top-soil, and the Pergola-trained vines get intense influence from the nearby ocean breeze. Etiqueta Verde—Green Label—is one of Granbazån’s most popular bottlings and a step up from their entry level bottling, Contrapunto. 100% Albarino, the grapes are hand-harvested, de-stemmed, fermented with native yeast, and aged for at least four months on the lees before bottling. The listed alcohol is 13%. This bottle opens with a nose that’s fully green: Granny Smith apples, green papaya, juicy limes, grass, budding flowers, and fresh mint. The palate runs vivid, brimming with saline acidity and minerality. It’s palate staining in its vibrancy; balance exists with just a touch of palate weight from those months spent on the lees. The finish is lengthy, wholly influenced by the Atlantic’s sea breeze. If we are truly all tied to the ocean, as JFK once said, this bottle is a great way to pay homage to the sea from whence we came. |
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| Albariño Varietal character (Appellation America)
Albariño (Galician pronunciation: [albaˈɾiːɲo]) or Alvarinho (Portuguese: [alvaˈɾiːɲo]) is a variety of white wine grape grown in Galicia (northwest Spain) and Monção (northwest Portugal), where it is used to make varietal white wines.
Albariño is actually the Galician name for the grape, with Albarín Blanco an occasional synonym. In Portugal it is known as Alvarinho, and sometimes as Cainho Branco. [1]
It was presumably brought to Iberia by Cluny monks in the twelfth century. Its name "Alba-Riño" means "the white from Rhine" and it has locally been thought to be a Riesling clone originating from the Alsace region of France, although earliest known records of Riesling as a grape variety date from the 15th, rather than the 12th, century. It is also theorized that the grape is a close relative of the French grape Petit Manseng. [2]
It should not be confused with the Alvarinho Liláz grape of Madeira.Spain Vinos de España - Wines of Spain (Instituto Español de Comercio Exterior) | Wikipedia
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Spain is the third largest wine producing nation in the world, occupying the majority of the Iberian Peninsula with vast diversity in climate, culture, and of course, wine. From inky, dark reds of the [Priorat] to dry, white Finos from Andalusia, Spain can easily boast of elaborating a wide variety of notable styles. Within Spain there are currently 62 demarcated wine regions, of which a handful have gained international recognition: [Rioja], Priorat and [Ribera del Duero]. Yet these regions are only a small sample of the high quality wines Spain produces. Regions such as Cava, Penedes, Somontano, Galicia, Rueda and Jerez are only a few of the numerous regions worthy of exploration throughout Spain. Spain can also lay claim to having the most land under vine in the world, growing up to, by some accounts, 600 indigenous varietals of which Tempranillo is their most well known. Other popular varietals include [Garnacha], Bobal and Monastrell for reds and for whites; the infamous [sic] Palomino Fino grape which is used in the production of sherry wine, Pedro Ximenez in Montilla Morilles, Albarino used in the creation of the bright, effervescent wines of Galicia, and Verdejo in Rueda. - Source: - Catavino.net
Spain is not in the forefront of winemaking for its dessert wines, other than for its sweet wines from Sherry country including the highly revered Olorosos (when sweetened). But apart from Sherry Spain has a range of styles of dessert wines, ranging from the those made from the Pedro Ximenez grape primarily in Jerez and Montilla-Moriles) to luscious, red dessert wines made in the Mediterranean from the Garnacha (Grenache) grape. Some good Moscatels are made in Mallorca, Alicante and Navarre. The northwest corner of Spain, Galicia, with its bitter Atlantic climate, is even making dessert wines, called “Tostadillos” in the village of Ribadivia (similar to France’s “Vin de Paille”). The Canary Islands have made interesting dessert wines for centuries (they are mentioned by Shakespeare, for example) and in recent years the quality of winemaking has been improved and the Canary Islands wines are being better marketed now. The winemaking styles for “Vinos Dulces” are also diverse, from “Late Harvest” (Vendimia Tardía) to “Fortified Wines” (Fermentación Parcial). Based on in-spain.info.GaliciaGalicia is an autonomous region in the northwestern corner of Spain, north of Portugal. It is marked by an atlantic climate with frequent rain and moderate temperatures, especially along the coastal regions. There are five Denominación de Origen (DO) areas: Monterrei, Rías Baixas, Ribeira Sacra, Ribeiro and Valdeorras. Probably the best known wines are the Albariño wines from Rias Baixas, but all regions have seen increased interest in recent years. There has been also a notable resurgence of local grapes, like Godello, Treixadura or Loureiro.
Rías BaixasThe Rías Baixas (Galician for "Lower Rias") are the Atlantic facing southern a part of Costa del Marisco in the Galicia region of Spain. They consist of the southern part of the Province of Coruña and the entire Province of Pontevedra. To the South the Rias Baixas border the Portuguese coast, and ends at Cape Finisterre to the North. The Rías Baixas appellation began in 1980 on October 11 when the Denominación Específica Albariño was legally established and recognised by the Spanish state. Four years later, on April 30, the regulations of the Denominación Específica Albariño and its Regulating Board were officially approved. Because of the need to adapt Spanish legislation to that of the EU, the Department of Agriculture, in an order dated March 17, 1988, recognised the Denominación de Origen Rías Baixas, and on July 4 published the order which approved the regulations of the appellation and its Regulating Board, ratified by a ministerial order on July 28 of the same year. During its short history, the Rías Baixas appellation has evolved in a sound and ordered way; and in the period between the years 1987 and 2001, the number of growers rose from 492 to 5,059, the number of wineries increased from 14 to 161 and the surface vineyard area expanded from 237 hectares to 2,408 (585 acres to 5,948). |
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