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About This Wine
A fine sandy colour with a touch of green, this is a young varietal Albariño with a significant future. A golden fruit nose carries granitic sand’s talcy-minerality. The fruit is sliced apple and nashi flesh with a hint of spicy breakfast radish and waft of paddymelon skin. To taste, the gorgeously rounded prickly pear fruit has an enlivened sweet-sour tug, thanks to a tangle of subtle green elements – tarragon, watermelon skin, mint, lime. But, unfiltered, the mouthfeel really is the thing! At first, trademark Salnes Valley acidity is prominent, along with Atlantic saline and granitic edginess – these are textural and flavoursome, far from simply sharp, and house a wine of great fleshy depth. Below and within the acid frame, a surprisingly powerful bell of lively, spiced rich fruit pushes out, revealing the hidden, raw power of Albariño, from a very fine tank of supremely textural fruit. Astonishing already, this has 2-3 years of positive development ahead of it.
Type | White Wine |
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Varietal(s) | Albarino |
Country | Spain |
Region | Rias Baixas |
Brand | Bodegas Castro Martin |
Vintage | 2017 |