2019 Bodegas La Cana Albariño

Community Tasting Notes (12) Avg Score: 90.7 points

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  6/11/2023 - Casablanca77 Likes this wine: 90 Points

  This was at the end of its drinking window but still tasted well. Very crisp acidity with aromas of grapefruit, apricot and a touch of saline. This is medium bodied with flavors of apple, lemon with some orange peel. The finish is crisp, balanced and lengthy. Great summer wine with seafood!

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  10/24/2021 - jwhiggins Likes this wine: 90 Points

  A very good all around Albarino to serve with shellfish—particularly raw oysters—which makes for a text-book pairing. Light-bodied and crisp, with a zingy lemon citrus streak that runs from nose to finish. The citrus is balanced by pronounced minerality, with notes of wet rock on the nose and chalk on the palate, and then progressing to more stone-like flavors on the finish. Perhaps a little too rough around the edges for quaffing on the deck, but an excellent choice for the raw seafood bar.

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  8/13/2021 - NillaWafer wrote: 100 Points

  Light and crisp

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  7/16/2021 - sfwinelover1 wrote: 88 Points

  One off purchase ($15.99) from the big box wine store, intrigued by good pro and CT reviews and expanding my wine range. On the nose and palate, tart green apples, lemon-lime, grapefruit rind, minerality, ginger and mixed ground spice. Straw colored, light to medium bodied, light legs. Bracing acidity, no heat. Good intensity, medium+ complexity, medium persistence. Pretty much of a PnP, although the wine didn't change much during the couple of hours we had it open. While I like this wine's taut and lithe texture and generally love acidity in wine, the acidity here seemed to overpower the wine's other elements, which would have worked better with food than without, which was how we drank it. I do like Albarinos--I really enjoyed a Paso Albarino I drank about 6 weeks ago--but this seemed a bit out of balance. I'd ordinarily think that would work itself out with some bottle age, although I don't think of Albarinos as inherently ageable wines, but the lack of integration over the couple of hours we had this open makes me unsure. I'm always looking for non-chard whites which drink fairly easily but have some body as good summer drinkers (add your joke about SF summer weather here), but this didn't quite seem to hit that spec. Time and food could get this wine closer to a 90, but without that today, it falls a bit into the meh category, good enough to finish the bottle but probably not to buy again. Well, always good to try something different. 87-88, giving it the extra half point due to price.

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  6/13/2021 - La Cave d'Argent Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Last sampled six months ago, this straw-colored Albariño continues to offer a package of quince and stone fruits, accented with notes of quinine, crushed rocks and ginger. Light-bodied, fresh, minimally oaked and without noticeable alcohol (listed as 13.5%), it is vibrant on the mid-palate and closes with a medium-to-long, crisp finish. Jorge Ordóñez on the back label typically ensures a high degree of quality. This is no exception. Drink now-2023.

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