Winemaker Notes
The 2024 Abadía de San Campio showcases expressive aromas of white stone fruits such as peach and apricot, accompanied with fresh apple, ripe lemon, and subtle hints of pineapple and aromatic herbs. The vintage reflects excellent ripeness, delivering surprising vigor and a textured mouthfeel while preserving the variety’s characteristic freshness. Creamy on the palate with perfectly balanced acidity, you will find a flavorful, zesty, and fleshy wine. The finish is long and refreshing, leaving lingering notes of white and citrus fruits. Albariño's characteristic tropical aromas are especially vibrant with this vintage and culminate nicely in a long, lingering finish.
Professional Ratings
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Wine Spectator
A vibrant, layered white, with creamy texture animated by nouthwatering, tangerine-infused acidity and an undercurrent of salinity. It offers flavors of kiwi fruit, green almond, melon and lemon oil that expand nicely through the herb- and spice-laced finish.
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James Suckling
Fresh, vivid and saline, with notes of lemon zest, stones and a hint of iodine on the nose. Medium-bodied with zesty acidity. Limes merge with a vibrant stream of discreet fruit on the palate, exhibiting a juicy character. Supple and delicious.
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.
Named after the rías, or estuarine inlets, that flow as far as 20 miles inland, Rías Baixas is an Atlantic coastal region with a cool and wet maritime climate. The entire region claims soil based on granite bedrock, but the inlets create five subregions of slightly different growing environments for its prized white grape, Albariño.
Val do Salnés on the west coast is said to be the birthplace of Albariño; it is the coolest and wettest of all of the regions. Having been named as the original subregion, today it has the most area under vine and largest number of wineries.
Ribeira do Ulla in the north and inland along the Ulla River is the newest to be included. It is actually the birthplace of the Padrón pepper!
Soutomaior is the smallest region and is tucked up in the hills at the end of the inlet called Ria de Vigo. Its soils are light and sandy over granite.
O Rosal and Condado do Tea are the farthest south in Rías Baixas and their vineyards actually cover the northern slopes of the Miño River, facing the Vinho Verde region in Portugal on its southern bank.
Albariño gives this region its fame and covers 90% of the area under vine. Caiño blanco, Treixadura and Loureira as well as occasionally Torrontés and Godello are permitted in small amounts in blends with Albariño. Red grapes are not very popular but Mencía, Espadeiro and Caiño Tinto are permitted and grown.