Don Olegario Albarino 2018
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Straw colored with greenish hints. The nose is intense with ripe apple, white pear, and floral notes. The palate features bright citrus tones along with a tinge of fresh herbs. The wine is polished with a perfectly balanced structure.
Pairs well with seafood, fish, poultry, fresh cheese, and white meats.
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Olegario Falcon, whose father worked on the business side of wine, purchased his family’s vineyard in 1980. Close to the sea in Salnés, the Falcons’ vines now average 30 years of age, providing this sophisticated coastal white, both fresh and deeply flavourful. It tastes like orange zest, the richness of lobster and cream, the gentle rain of a sun shower at the beach. Clean, precise and elegant, this is a wine to buy by the case. Best Buy
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Initially, his production was around 6,000 bottles per year and was sold at a local level. Over the following years, his wine - Don Olegario -achieved an excellent level of quality due to excellent primary materials and a traditional wine-making process.
The Albariño grapes used for making this wine come from a single 5 hectare vineyard which is located in the privileged valley of O Salnés. Its location, altitude and position, in addition to the characteristics of its soil, produce grapes of unsurpassable quality.
Today, the original winery has been enlarged and equipped with up-to-date wine-making technology, combining tradition, experience and technology. The third generation of the family continues working to obtain the highest quality and personality in their wines.
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.
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.