Do Ferreiro Albarino - 2024 (750ml)

DoFerreiroAlb24 

$64.89 price per bottle

Do Ferreiro Albariño is serious and balanced, complex and very complete with fully developed aromas and flavors, with a long, harmonious palate featuring vibrant acidity and a strong mineral, stony component. Do Ferreiro is a very dry, varietally correct wine that is really representative of the Salnés Valley terruño. Expressive and harmonious,  combining power and freshness; Do Ferreiro Albariño is capable of developing in bottle for 10 years or more. . Vinification. Bunches are hand-selected in the vineyard, handpicked, and placed in small crates. Grapes are destemmed, cold-macerated for a few hours, and pressed. A natural yeast fermentation begins using a pied de cuve from the winery’s historic Cepas Vellas vineyard, followed by aging on the lees for six to nine months without bâtonnage in stainless steel tanks. No malolactic fermentation, unfiltered, light bentonite fining. . 94 points Wine Review Online. Few producers have done more to define modern Albariño than Gerardo Méndez. From his family’s vineyards in Meaño, in the heart of the Salnés Valley, Méndez has spent decades demonstrating that Albariño can deliver not only freshness, but also depth, precision, and remarkable age-worthiness. The 2024 offers aromas of lemon zest, white peach, green apple, and orange blossom that unfold over a distinctly Atlantic core. On the palate, vibrant acidity carries flavors of citrus, orchard fruit, and crushed stone before finishing with the saline, oyster shell minerality that has become the hallmark of great Salnés Albariño. Focused, energetic, and impeccably balanced, this is a textbook expression of both the variety and one of Galicia’s most revered terroirs. - Miranda Franco. 94 points Robert Parker. When I tasted this wine in mid-June, the nose of the 2024 Albariño was still too closed and a little reductive to show its true colors, but it was in the palate where I could see the harmony and balance of the year, a year with purity and elegance, with a perfect balance between alcohol and ripeness and freshness and acidity, with textbook parameters for good development of aromatics and flavors while keeping the spark from the granite soils. It's very Salnés. Some 90,000 bottles will be produced, but some wine is still to be bottled and kept with the fine lees in stainless steel. Luis Gutiérrez