Adegas Gran Vinum Gran Vinum Albarino Seleccion Especial
The wine offers up a complex bouquet of pink grapefruit, fresh lime, briny notes of ocean breeze, wet stone minerality, a touch of menthol and a topnote of dried flowers. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied and vibrant, with a lovely core of fruit, excellent mineral drive and grip, fine focus and a long, well balanced and complex finish.
Winery: Adegas Gran Vinum
Appellation: Rias Baixas
Average age of vines: 50 year old vines
Farming Methods: Traditional methods, Vegan
Maturation: Aged on lees with weekly battonage in stainless steel tank for 5 months
Soil: Decomposed granitic sandy loam
Varietal: 100% Albariño
Vineyard Orientation: 10 meters
Vineyard Size: 76 hectares
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Adegas Gran Vinum Gran Vinum Albarino Seleccion Especial 2024
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Wine Review Online
This wine is among the very best renditions of Albariño from Rías Baixas in almost every vintage, and 2024 is no exception. It is certainly a standout in terms of physical density, but the real key to its success is not its “size” but rather how driving and persistent its flavors prove to be. Purity of fruit is another key, and the notes of orchard fruits with citrus edging are utterly delicious. But again, the wine’s linear energy is truly remarkable by comparison to the many good—but merely good—wines made every year in Rías Baixas. That’s not intended as a knock on the region’s wines (it is borderline amazing that an area with such high rainfall makes such consistently tasty wines) so much as an indication that this is truly something special. The spectacular finish was easy to sense when tasting it on its own, but when re-tasting it along with spicy fried rice, the aftertaste of the wine outlasted the lingering flavors of the food. Trust me—I’ve got the score right on this, even though many reviewers seem to subconsciously impose a “ceiling” on the scores they’ll accord to Albariño, just as one very rarely sees a score of 95 for Sauvignon Blancs from anywhere. This is state-of-the-art juice.
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