Sentidino Albarino Rias Baixas 2025

Ama Vida Albarino Rias Baixas is made from 100% Albarino.

Ama Vida is produced by Rectoral do Umia, the Galician family group founded by Manolo "Arnoya" more than 60 years ago and today run by his children Manuel and Myriam. The family farms 120 hectares in the Condado and Ulla subzones and works with growers in O Salnes and O Rosal.

Refined, soft, fresh and intense wine. It presents a powerful aroma of stone fruits, such as peach and sweet pear, with the freshness of lemon so characteristic of Albarino. It is a pleasure for the palate.

Soils: three types — granitic, schist, and pebbles with sand and clay. Sustainable farming. Manual harvest, grape selection on a sorting table, destemming, cooling, low-press pressing, must settling, controlled low-temperature fermentation, aged on its own lees for 3-4 months, clarification, tangential filtration and bottling.

RS: 1.8 g/L · TA: 6.8 g/L · ABV: 12.5%

Pairs with fettuccine with pesto sauce or sushi.

Valminor Albarino Rias Baixas is made from 100 percent Albarino. 

Albariño is a Portuguese grape, native to the Miño River region, which separates Galicia & the Rias Baixas DO from Portugal. Albariño has a characteristic citrus aroma & high acidity.

Valminor Albarino presents a yellow straw color. On the nose, the wine shows a wide fruity range of aromas, with notes of fresh grapefruit, apricot and melon. In the mouth, Valminor combines fruity flavors and freshness with a rounded acidity, resulting in a balanced wine that boasts an opulent taste and slight spritziness. 

 Review:

"Elaborate swirls of lime, lemon, passionfruit and white peach entice the nose whilst the pristine purity of acidity and mineral freshness disarms the terroir-driven palate. Salty, linear and tangy, demonstrating Atlantic style at its best."
- Decanter World Wine Awards 2025, 97 pts and Platinum Medal

Fefinanes Albarino de Albarino is 100 percent Albarino

Fresh fruit aromas of apricot and peach slices with notes of lemon and green apple. Pretty notes of honey and wet nutmeg, and the mouth is round, clean, and pleasant with baked apple, honey, and lemon.

This is a classic Albariño which is good young, but actually improves over two to three years and remains quite drinkable for up to five years. Owner Juan Gil comments that the wine really starts to come into its own in June/July, and he actually prefers it 18 or more months after it's made. A Fefiñanes "vertical" of three or four vintages can provide some most interesting surprises.

Marea Albarino  is made from 100% Albariño

This 100% Albarino is produced from fruits grown in Kristy Vineyard, on the western bench overlooking the Salinas River on broken sediment of ancient sea beds. Kristy is special because Albarino in the vineyard reaches full phenological ripeness at low potential alcohol and natural, bright acidity. Cold fermented in stainless steel for aromatic intensity.
Bright, fresh and crisp with notes of lemon curd and tangerine. On the palate it shows elegant texture and bright acidity on the finish.

Picked under 22 brix, 2/3 whole cluster pressed, 1/3 destemmed and left on skins for two days. Aged on the lees for four months and then sterile filtered.

Pairs with oysters, grilled fish, spicy cuisines.

The Barossa has a core of traditional growers of German Silesian descent, dating back five generations, staunchly continuing on the traditions of their forebears. Occasionally one or two parcels of fruit of overwhelming quality come over the weighbridge; this is such an example. This wine is sourced from up to 70-year-old, low-yielding shiraz vines from a selection of historical grower vineyards at Tappa Pass and Light Pass, growing in low-fertility Neoproterozoic soils more than 542 million years old, that range from red-brown earths to terra rossa. These vineyards provide shiraz fruit from both the Eden and Barossa Valleys of the Barossa zone, vinified in traditional open-top fermenters. Matured in 24% new and 76% seasoned French hogsheads for 18 months prior to blending and bottling.

 Deep crimson with violet hues. Vibrant aromas of blueberry, blackberry, Satsuma plum and raspberry with hints of anise, crushed marjoram, cardamom, violets and cedar. The palate is rich, plush, and complex, with juicy blueberry and mulberry, spicy blackberry paste, and layers of fine velvety tannins creating incredible depth and length.

Review:

-Wine Pilot 96 Points

Alain de la Treille Touraine Sauvignon Blanc 2025 is made from Sauvignon Blanc.

Our Touraine Sauvignon Blanc is crisp and refreshing, with rich, ripe lime and grapefruit aromas. Great elegance with a mineral style and, despite it all, a certain roundness.

Average age of the vines is 20 years. Part of this cuvee is made with 12 hours of skin maceration and another part from directly pressed grapes. The wine was lightly filtered before bottling to keep it stable.

Ideal for the aperitif, cooked fish such as smoked and grilled salmon, and of course with goat cheese.

"Juicy bright, pink grapefruit with melon. Fresh, juicy, gooseberryish and refreshing mouthful, crisp, clean finish." - International Wine Challenge, 90 pts & Silver Medal