2018 Do Ferreiro Albariño Rías Baixas Cepas Vellas
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Glistening chartreuse. Incisive, mineral-tinged aromas of tangerine, pear, white peach and jasmine show excellent delineation and spicy lift. Lively and sharply detailed on the palate, offering intense citrus and orchard fruit, bitter quinine and honeysuckle flavors underscored by a vein of chalky minerality. Finishes dry, lively and extremely long, with vibrant orange pith and floral qualities and an insistent mineral note.
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The 2018 Albariño Cepas Vellas has to be one of the finest vintages of this old-vine (reaaaaally old vine!) cuvée, in a vintage where the wine reached levels of elegance and harmony that I don't remember before. After having the wine in the glass for almost two hours, the nose was explosive, and the palate felt like bottled electricity, with effervescent acidity that makes you salivate, and it had incredible depth and concentration. They now tell me they think the vines could have been planted in 1785, in a property that had been a granite quarry, so I don't need to tell you what the soils are like here. This is a zone with a lot of fog, and that brings intense salinity to the wines. I need to dig out some bottles of 2010 I have somewhere in my cellar and check the evolution, because they tell me, and I agree, that this is a modern version of the 2010. There are 8,000 bottles of this wine. It was bottled in September 2019.