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Rías Baixas
LA VAL Albariño
Bottle 75cl - 2023
La Val Albariño is a wine that combines characteristics of three types of soils of Rías Baixas, highlighting acidity, fruitiness and minerality. The manual harvest and fermentation in stainless steel tanks produce a wine with notes of fruit, fresh herbs and a floral and saline background. It presents a good structure in the mouth, with freshness, balance and a saline and slightly bitter finish.
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90 Puntos
Peñín Guide
90 Puntos
Production Zone
Rías Baixas
Type of wine
White
Winery
LA VAL
Aging
Young
Format
75cl
Grape variety used
100% albariño
Alcohol content
12,5
Characteristics of the vineyard
Blend of the different vineyards of the winery, containing the characteristics of each one of them. In fact, in this wine we can find peculiarities of the three typical soils of the Rías Baixas appellation, granite in Taboexa (acidity), alluvium and boulder in Arantei and Porto (fruitiness) and schist in Vilachán (minerality).
Winemaking characteristics
Harvest by hand in 20 kg crates. The grapes are transported and stored in cold storage. Pellicular maceration of 40% of the grapes at 10 ºC for 4 hours. Soft pressing with selection of the best must and yolk. Fermentation in stainless steel tanks at 16/17ºC. The wine is devatted with its fine lees with which it remains for about three months.
Harvest data
One of the earliest harvests in the history of the Denomination. It begins on August 30. Very warm and humid spring, responsible for the great vegetative advance of the vine cycle. Normal summer in terms of temperatures and rainfall, which allowed the grapes to ripen slowly and perfectly. A good flowering combined with the lack of fungal and climatic incidents allowed a good harvest in terms of quantity and quality. Musts of moderate alcohol content and correct acidity, very aromatic.
Tasting notes
Straw yellow with greenish hues. On the nose clean and bright with good aromatic intensity where primary aromas of fruit (apricot, apple, pineapple), notes of fresh herbs (bay leaf, fennel) and citrus (grapefruit) stand out over a floral and saline background. Medium structure on the palate and long finish with great balance and freshness. Fruity throughout with citrus notes and Atlantic herbs. Saline and slightly bitter finish
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