Palacio de Fefinanes Albarino 2020

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Product Details


Varietal

Region

Producer

Vintage
2020

Size
750ML

ABV
13.5%

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Winemaker Notes

The 2020 Palacio de Fefinanes Albarino is a bright, crystalline pale-yellow color with intense aromatics of fresh fruit, such as green apple and melon, and citrus fruit, such as lemon, together with aromatic herbs and camomile. Dry and showing an Atlantic vivacity thanks to its lively acidity, it is long, flavorsome, appealing and warm.

Ideal pairings include clam, lobster, fish, mussels, and oysters. Also excellent with Asian cuisine, beef or tuna tartare.

Professional Ratings

  • 93

    This stainless steel– fermented white is youthful yet shows great grace through its texturally provocative mouthfeel. A whirlpool of apricot, peach, melon, and honeyed pineapple glides across the palate, mixing with salty slate.

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Palacio de Fefinanes

Palacio de Fefinanes

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Palacio de Fefinanes, Spain
Founded in 1904, Palacio de Fefinanes is housed inside a spectacular baronial palace which sits on the lovely main square of coastal Cambados. The facility was built in 1647 by vicount of Fefiñanes Gonzalo Sarmiento Valladares (1583-1659) and is currently owned by Juan Gil Careaga. Palacio de Fefiñanes was the first producer to bottle wine under the D.O. Rías Baixas denomination. The label design dates from 1928 and shows an engraving of the Fefiñanes Palace. The winemaker is Cristina Mantilla.
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Bright and aromatic with distinctive floral and fruity characteristics, Albariño has enjoyed a surge in popularity and an increase in plantings over the last couple of decades. Thick skins allow it to withstand the humid conditions of its homeland, Rías Baixas, Spain, free of malady, and produce a weighty but fresh white. Somm Secret—Albariño claims dual citizenship in Spain and Portugal. Under the name Alvarinho, it thrives in Portugal’s northwestern Vinho Verde region, which predictably, borders part of Spain’s Rías Baixas.

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Named after the rías, or estuarine inlets, that flow as far as 20 miles inland, Rías Baixas is an Atlantic coastal region with a cool and wet maritime climate. The entire region claims soil based on granite bedrock, but the inlets create five subregions of slightly different growing environments for its prized white grape, Albariño.

Val do Salnés on the west coast is said to be the birthplace of Albariño; it is the coolest and wettest of all of the regions. Having been named as the original subregion, today it has the most area under vine and largest number of wineries.

Ribeira do Ulla in the north and inland along the Ulla River is the newest to be included. It is actually the birthplace of the Padrón pepper!

Soutomaior is the smallest region and is tucked up in the hills at the end of the inlet called Ria de Vigo. Its soils are light and sandy over granite.

O Rosal and Condado do Tea are the farthest south in Rías Baixas and their vineyards actually cover the northern slopes of the Miño River, facing the Vinho Verde region in Portugal on its southern bank.

Albariño gives this region its fame and covers 90% of the area under vine. Caiño blanco, Treixadura and Loureira as well as occasionally Torrontés and Godello are permitted in small amounts in blends with Albariño. Red grapes are not very popular but Mencía, Espadeiro and Caiño Tinto are permitted and grown.

AUT20FEFALBARINO_2020 Item# 780566

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