Pedro Mendez Albarino Val do Salnes 2023 750ml

Winemaker Description

This small-production Albarino comes from a mix of young and very old vines, made to be a pure, straight-to-the-point take on the bracing variety! The citrus blossom top notes, and core fruit character of apple & nectarine, come with a wash of powerful, saline-like acidity into the well-balanced finish, making for a mouthwateringly delicious experience.

Pedros Albario collection is from the Salns Valley hamlet, Meao. If I were to draw a comparison to Pedros wines and our other growers in Ras Baixas, Id say theyre more powerful than those of Manuel Moldes and, perhaps of equal power to Xesteiria, but are more contained and classically styled than the latter. Pedros Albarios have broad shoulders, a compact core and megathrust. This may be partly due to the older average vine age of his many parcels, and, in some cases, deeper topsoil. Moldes cru Albarios are on schist, with his Afelio on the mostly granite. Xesteiria harvests from a single plot of extremely hard metamorphic rock with almost no topsoil. The bedrock is somewhere between medium- to high-grade metamorphic rock: some looks like gneiss while others look like schist. Xesteirias rock type is probably the rarest of all in Salns with vineyards planted.