A few notches below the previous bottle, this one was unbalanced and showing heat, and came off as more of a late harvest style albariño with too much alcohol.
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Sipped from a hotel water glass in Milano. Floral nose, with green fruits and honeysuckle, as well as some whiffs of sea salt/iodine. Rich, almost buttery mouthfeel, with deep, complex flavors of white nectarine, tangy green apple, walnut oil, some other bits i can't even begin to describe, and a savory, almost salty minerality that lingers on the finish. Is it the best albariño i've tasted? Maybe. The complexity and richness is remarkable, but i guess i wanted more of the zippy acidity i find in other Rías Baixas whites, like the 2004 Pazo de Señorans. Impressive, but a more intensely tart core of acidity would catapult this wine to another level.
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A little time to open up does a lot for this wine. It started out floral, a little honeyed, and very oily-textured -- even seemed like there might be just a dollop of RS. As the wine opened up it got intensely mineral -- at first a lot of Mosel-like slate, then oyster shells, lots and lots of them -- and the structure got more serious; you can feel the scaffolding building layers and layers of itself like a fractal as you keep coming back to it. A few hours later, it's finishing fresh and chalky with that spring-like florality still going strong. The back label claims 200+-year-old pre-phylloxera vines though the one attribute that's surprising in light of that is that the alcohol is rather stiff. The label says 13.5% but I think that's lowballing it. So despite its freshness this isn't a poolside sipper.
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6/20/2010 - concord wrote:
White stone fruits, good balancing acidity.
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7/6/2009 - Joe_Montana wrote: 91 Points
Quiero másssss !!
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7/9/2007 - 5laton wrote: 88 Points
A few notches below the previous bottle, this one was unbalanced and showing heat, and came off as more of a late harvest style albariño with too much alcohol.
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7/7/2007 - 5laton wrote: 91 Points
Sipped from a hotel water glass in Milano. Floral nose, with green fruits and honeysuckle, as well as some whiffs of sea salt/iodine. Rich, almost buttery mouthfeel, with deep, complex flavors of white nectarine, tangy green apple, walnut oil, some other bits i can't even begin to describe, and a savory, almost salty minerality that lingers on the finish. Is it the best albariño i've tasted? Maybe. The complexity and richness is remarkable, but i guess i wanted more of the zippy acidity i find in other Rías Baixas whites, like the 2004 Pazo de Señorans. Impressive, but a more intensely tart core of acidity would catapult this wine to another level.
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6/8/2007 - Keith Levenberg wrote: 91 Points
A little time to open up does a lot for this wine. It started out floral, a little honeyed, and very oily-textured -- even seemed like there might be just a dollop of RS. As the wine opened up it got intensely mineral -- at first a lot of Mosel-like slate, then oyster shells, lots and lots of them -- and the structure got more serious; you can feel the scaffolding building layers and layers of itself like a fractal as you keep coming back to it. A few hours later, it's finishing fresh and chalky with that spring-like florality still going strong. The back label claims 200+-year-old pre-phylloxera vines though the one attribute that's surprising in light of that is that the alcohol is rather stiff. The label says 13.5% but I think that's lowballing it. So despite its freshness this isn't a poolside sipper.
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