2021 Castro Martin Sobre Lias Albarino
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Beautiful savoury pear, with yellowed straw and apple cider on the nose, and CM's trademark smooth-fruited journey in the mouth. Almost certainly the most savoury CM yet, it is a little richer than usual, but the full-fruitedness is textural rather than fruity as such, with apple-skin fruit tannins tucking everything in and the lees ageing for savoury mouthfeel. Pear-apple 'two fruits' plus nectar florals and super texture, hmmm ... it's a dead-set beaut!
Wine Specs
Vintage
2021
Varietal
Albarino
Appellation
Salnes Valley
Wine Profile
Winemaker Notes
All fruit is hand-picked and goes into press less than 2 hours from picking. The fruit is given a whole bunch
press and the must is chilled and gravity settled before fermentation in 16 stainless steel deposits of 9000
litres each, all with cooling jackets. Fermentation is seeded with their own neutral yeast selection, and takes
place at 14 degrees over 3-4 weeks. After fermentation, the wine is statically aged on lees 6-8 weeks, with
the possibility of racking if reduction threatens. Malo-lactic fermentation can usually be avoided (15% of the
wine from the very cold 2013 harvest underwent MLF). There is a second cold stabilisation after lees aging
and after 14 days the wine is bottled with only a very light fining.