Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 90.3 points

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    6/20/2010 - wrote:

    White stone fruits, good balancing acidity.

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    7/6/2009 - wrote: 91 Points

    Quiero másssss !!

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    7/9/2007 - 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 - 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 - 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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  • By Lyle Fass
    5/25/2007, (See more on Rockss and Fruit...)

    (Do Ferreiro Albarino "Cepas Vellas") This is made from allegedly 200+ year old vines. If true it sure tastes like it. This is remarkable transcendental lifechanging albarino. Can you tell I liked it? At first pour it is a bit unyielding and stony but it starts to open aromatically with some white peach, apricot, white flowers, stone fruits and intense minerality. The palate reminds me of top-notch Chablis with some drier Rheingau Riesling thrown in. Incredibly harmony and delineation with astounding purity and depth. This wine is deep. Very mega mucho deep. The flavors are all minerally stone fruits and the finish goes on and on . . ..The concentration is astounding. This is amazing and can be counted among the great white wines of Spain. I need some.

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