Dry · Full-bodied · High acidity · Elegant
Albamar's single-vineyard Pepe Luis: the most concentrated natural-leaning Salnes Albariño from Xurxo Alba's project.
Cuvées
Dry · Full-bodied · High acidity · Elegant · Contemplative
The barrel-fermented Fefiñanes Albariño named after the year the Palacio was built in Cambados: oak-shaded peach and almond, still the saline Salnes core.
Dry · Full-bodied · High acidity · Elegant
Three years on the lees turns Salnes Albariño into something closer to aged Riesling: honeyed citrus, dried herbs and a long saline lift that proves the variety ages.
Attis Embaixador
4.5
Dry · Full-bodied · High acidity · Elegant
Attis Embaixador: the single-vineyard prestige Albariño from Bodegas Attis.
Dry · Full-bodied · High acidity · Elegant
Castro Martín's prestige A2O bottling: extended lees-ageing on selected old-vine Salnes Albariño.
Contraaparede
4.6
Dry · Full-bodied · High acidity · Elegant
Adega Eidos' prestige extended-ageing Contraaparede: 24-plus months on lees, Padriñán Albariño at its most age-driven.
Dry · Full-bodied · High acidity · Elegant
From a 1.5-hectare plot of pre-phylloxera vines on sandy granite: arguably the iconic vineyard-designate Albariño of Rías Baixas.
Eiral
4.4
Dry · Full-bodied · High acidity · Elegant
Eiral: Pablo Padín's prestige extended-lees Albariño from selected Salnes fruit.
Fillaboa 1898
4.6
Dry · Full-bodied · High acidity · Elegant
Fillaboa 1898: a barrel-fermented Condado do Tea Albariño named for the year the estate's historic bridge was built.
Dry · Full-bodied · High acidity · Elegant
Fulcro O Equilibrista: Manuel Moldes' single-vineyard prestige bottling, concrete-aged on fine lees.
Dry · Full-bodied · High acidity · Elegant
The prestige Granbazán bottling named for the 16th-century admiral: selected old-vine fruit, longer ageing, more weight.
La Mar
4.6
Dry · Full-bodied · High acidity · Elegant
Terras Gauda's barrel-fermented Caíño Blanco-dominant cuvée: one of the few wines in DO Rías Baixas led by the variety.
Dry · Full-bodied · High acidity · Elegant
Forjas del Salnés' single-vineyard from the Finca Genoveva plot: foudre-aged, mineral-driven, the cult vineyard-designate Albariño of the Salnés coast.
Dry · Full-bodied · High acidity · Elegant
The single-estate Finca Valiñas bottling: the serious sibling to the blue-label, lees-aged from the home estate in Meis.
Dry · Full-bodied · High acidity · Elegant
The cooperative's prestige bottling: late-harvest Albariño with noble-rot complexity, made only in vintages when the botrytis arrives clean on the Salnes ría.
Dry · Full-bodied · High acidity · Elegant
Soverribas: the sibling single-vineyard from Nanclares y Prieto, from a higher-elevation parral parcel.
Nora da Neve
4.4
Dry · Full-bodied · High acidity · Elegant
Nora da Neve: the prestige barrel-fermented Albariño from Viña Nora, with extended lees-ageing in French oak.
Dry · Full-bodied · High acidity · Elegant
The wine that proved Albariño ages: 30-plus months on the lees before release, produced only in vintages with the structure to develop.
Dry · Full-bodied · High acidity · Elegant
From the 1.4-hectare Cacheiro plot planted in 1965: extended ageing on lees, the prestige aged Albariño of the Barrantes range.
Dry · Full-bodied · High acidity · Elegant
Quinta de Couselo's prestige Selección bottling: extended lees-ageing on selected old-vine Albariño fruit.
Tricó Albariño
4.6
Dry · Full-bodied · High acidity · Elegant
The age-worthy Tricó Albariño: 10 hectares of granite-and-sand Condado do Tea fruit, extended lees-ageing, designed to develop.