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| Drinking window: Drink between 2022 and 2026 (based on 5 user opinions) |
| Community Tasting History |
| Community Tasting Notes (average 90.3 pts. and median of 90 pts. in 16 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Amberissey on 11/21/2023 & rated 90 points: Limited notes. Utterly delicious example of the varietal. While I haven’t tried everything that Waitrose has to offer, I would be surprised if there was anything with a qpr better than this. (521 views) | | | Tasted by VlgJeff on 7/27/2023 & rated 90 points: PnP, chilled. Medium bodied palate with notes of pear, white peach, lemon, minerality and a streak of salinity. Lively acidity and some creaminess due to lees aging. May be best from '23 thru '26. (486 views) | | | Tasted by joostentamara on 7/14/2023 & rated 91 points: Totaly agree with Ben.
It is not just a refreshing saline wine. It is also creamy and has some weigth. Everything nicely balanced.
It is tasty enough to go well with slightly spicy and aromatic food. Love this wine! Great QPR! (510 views) | | | Tasted by auldalliance on 7/8/2023: With pan fried halibut and grilled brill.
This wine always hit the spot, a cut above most Albarinos. I need to show restraint and give it time to age a year or so more! I'm sure there will be a bit more depth and complexity to it. (471 views) | | | Tasted by Rupert on 6/5/2023: Grapefruit, minerals, good length, discreet class (535 views) | | | Tasted by Ben Christiansen on 5/24/2023: With some creamy lemon on the nose. Quite beautiful as it were. And then nice and saline on the palate. Touch of a warm terpene note I am being told and there it is. Pretty darn tasty as it were. (524 views) | | | Tasted by Rupert on 5/20/2023: Intriguing orange peel and grapefruit fruit, classily restrained. (349 views) | | | Tasted by Irish_Wine on 3/26/2023 & rated 90 points: Expressive nose of lifted peach, lemon zest and wet stone. Light and fresh on the palate. Delicious wine with good persistance on the finish. No reason to wait, drink now.
WSET notes:
Pale lemon.
Pronounced on the nose with peach, lemon, chalk, wet stone. Youthful.
Pronounced and dry on the palate. High acidity, light body, medium alcohol, long finish.
Drink now. Not suitable for aging or further aging. (475 views) | | | Tasted by auldalliance on 2/25/2023: With oven baked brill. Great citrus, then a certain richness, but long dry finish. Excellent Albarino. (418 views) | | | Tasted by Ben Christiansen on 1/28/2023: Now here is Albarino. Cream and lemon and kinda holding strong. (665 views) | | | Tasted by Tom Rodger on 8/20/2022: This vintage seems to have a bit more lime/citrus on the palette and is a little less rounded than previous vintages. That said it is still a lovely wine and my favourite Albariño. (417 views) | | | Tasted by rikipedia on 7/17/2022 & rated 90 points: 12.5% This Albarino is a fruit-forward expression of the variety, with captivating peach, orange blossom and mandarin aromas. On the palate, it has a firm acidity on entry, followed by notes of apples and peardrops. The yellow apple skin and orange pith texture combine with phenolics and an acid fizz to add structure to this complex wine. The finish is surprisingly full and extended with a green apple and lime finish. This is a wine that benefits from its old vine concentration and the green apple acid gives a farewell bite on the back palate (155 views) |
| Bodegas del Palacio de Fefiñanes Producer WebsiteAlbariño 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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