Winemaker Notes
This refreshing wine has pronounced citrus notes of lemon and grapefruit. Full-bodied on the palate with intense flavor and vibrant acidity leads to a long and complex finish.
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
Aromas of herbs, fennel and citrus. The palate is succulent, fleshy, elegant and medium-bodied, with freshness and nerve. This spends three months in tanks with frequent battonage on the fine lees.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2025 Muros Antigos Alvarinho is my favorite from this range. It shows a little more weight than the others, with primary varietal character and a dry, serious and austere sensation on the palate. It comes in at 12.5% alcohol, with a pH of 3.14 and 6.4 grams of acidity. 150,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in January 2025 after three months with the lees in stainless steel.
Bright and aromatic with distinctive floral and fruity characteristics, Albariño has enjoyed a surge in popularity and an increase in plantings over the last couple of decades. Thick skins allow it to withstand the humid conditions of its homeland, Rías Baixas, Spain, free of malady, and produce a weighty but fresh white. Somm Secret—Albariño claims dual citizenship in Spain and Portugal. Under the name Alvarinho, it thrives in Portugal’s northwestern Vinho Verde region, which predictably, borders part of Spain’s Rías Baixas.
A cheerful, translucid, lemon-yellow and slightly pétillant white wine, Vinho Verde literally means ‘green wine’ and is named after the northwest Portugese region from which it originates. The ‘green’ in the name refers to the youthful state in which the wines are customarily released and consumed, not the color of the wine.
It is typically a blend of various percentages of Alvarinho, Loureiro, Trajadura, and Pedernã (Arinto). Following initial alcoholic fermentation, a natural, secondary malolactic conversion in cask produces carbon dioxide, giving Vinho Verde its charmingly light sparkle.