O Rosal Rías Baixas Albariño

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Weeknight guilty pleasures wine

Vintage 2015 / spices, a certain sharpness

This is a great Rias Baixas wine. It is complex, with a nose going light on the flowers and heavy on the fruit - lemon and orange mainly. There is also a touch of lanolin and a hint of apricot. On the palate, it’s fruit up front, with some serious salinity and a very nice acidity that’s as fresh as springtime.

Vintage 2015 / Gold colour, oxydative nose, powerfull taste, gastronomical wine, not a everyone’s friend (positive 😉)

Vintage 2018 flowers in smell, plums in taste, refinement

Beautiful wine, crisply fruity

Thinking about Albariños; and my recent visit to this region in Spain 🇪🇸 The Galician climate receives moisture from the Atlantic and is mostly sticky, warm and rainy with rain ☔️ most days during the year. Winters are a bit harsh and cold. The humid, salt air is what this viticultural environment is all about. The mostly white wines made here are highly acidic, with notes of tart, green apple 🍏 and white flowers. This particular wine was enjoyed with a dish of Tile fish at Chef Norman Van Aken’s 1921 Restaurant in Mt Dora, FL. This wine was beautifully complex, round, dry but not overtly so. It was a delicate balance of fruit and earthiness. Sophisticated and elegant. I will look for this one again.

Gentle fizz, subtle dryness. A real grower, one for summer.

A slightly heavier Albarino than most but these guys can do it with some (a little) blending of other native grapes that only they can do .. Gives more complexity while maintaining that galician freshness we love albarino for. Of course these guys are no minor operation - they gave me a magnum with my name printed on it just for visiting. A very classy wine which has a permanent spot in my rack. 18.5