Rías Baixas
Valminor Davila 2006
I thought I had cleared out all of the Albarino based wines in the tasting pile, but found this when I was looking for something to take to a Vietnamese joint down in Victoria Street, Richmond. Albarino really handles the spice and salt of many Asian style dishes really well, but its the seafood where [...]
Castro Martin 2006
I think this is the last Albariño in the tasting pile at the moment. I'll duck out and get some more over the Christmas break. This is the most fun albariño around, it has the most expressive albariño aromatic characters, doesn't break the bank and so easy to drink.
Castro Martin is made from estate [...]
Albariño de Fefiñanes 2006
Albarino seems to be flavour of the month at the moment in Melbourne. The 06s have landed and just about every bar I walk into has one by the glass. Unfortunately, most are served way too cold and the punters must be walking away thinking that albariño is Spanish for riesling. Of course its not [...]
Valmiñor Albariño 2006
Rias Brixas apparently had a great year in 2006, and if this wine is anything to go by I'm looking forward to drinking more albariños from this vintage over the next few months. From this vintage so far I see great, fresh fruit with the usual stone fruits, but also some tropical fruits on the [...]
Albariño de Fefiñanes “1583″ 2005
Now this is something a little bit left of centre. Even the name 1853 is a bit odd. You'd think it was the date of the establishment of the vineyard or the date of some great happening in Spain, but its actually the birth year of the guy who built the Palacios de Fefiñanes.
Redardless [...]
Bodegas del Palacio de Fefiñanes Albariño De Fefiñanes 2005
This bodega is one of the oldest in Rias Brixas (with the longest name too!), started in 1904, and they were the first to bottle an albariño wine in 1928. And what a wine it is, possibly the best Spanish albariño I've had to date. A great wine to put in a blind line up, [...]
Condes de Albarei Albariño 2005
Albariño certainly seems to be popular at the moment. I'm not sure how its selling, but there are at least 8 very good wines available in Australia now, not bad for a white wine from Spain. Condes de Albarei is a fairly old co-op of 400 growers with 170 hectares of Albariño in the Salnes Valley, from which they [...]
Lagar de Cervera Albariño 2005
It has finally happened, a screwcapped albariño has landed on my desk. And its not your ordinary stelvin, its one of those funky embossed stelvin+ jobs. But that isn't the only reason to like this wine, its bloody good.
The old Rioja stalwarts, La Rioja Alta, bought this bodega in 1988 and have been putting [...]
Castro Martin Albariño 2005
Its been a while since I've had an albarino, now is the perfect time to start getting stuck in. I still haven't seen a lot of Australian albarino yet, I hear its going in all over the place.
Light in colour, a slight hint of gold. Classic albarino nose of white peach, jasmine and green apple, not as aromatic [...]
Santiago Ruiz Blanco 2004
Here is another blend from Rias Brixas, this time a mix of 70% albarino, 20 loureiro and 10% treixadura. Funky packaging seems to be important to the people of this region, the label on the front of this bottle is a copy of a hand drawn map of how to get to the owner's daughter wedding.
This is the most expensive [...]
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