Do Ferreiro Rias Baixas Albarino 2024 NO20230823 It is a masterful bottle

It is a masterful bottle of perfectly young rye

and limits yields through careful pruning

— else makes wine at this level and then…waits

stony soils in a warm pocket shielded from the Mistral wind—low yields yielding concentrated character

distilled using hand-zested bergamot

Do Ferreiro Rias Baixas Albarino 2024 NO20230823 It is a masterful bottleDo Ferreiro is one of those producer names that gets quoted whenever anyone seriously discusses Albarino. Gerardo Mendez farms granitic plots across the Val do Salnes, the historic heart of Rias Baixas, and his standard bottling is blended from over 175 small parcels. The 2024 is classic Do Ferreiro: pale, taut, mineral, with citrus and stone fruit lift and that briny tension that defines great Salnes Albarino. The kind of wine that explains why