Winemaker Notes
This Albariño has a silky texture on the palate yet bracing acidity. It is still evolving but promises to develop great complexity and mouth-filling flavors.
Professional Ratings
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Wine Enthusiast
Louisa Sawyer Lindquist's racy bottling would make the Rías Baixas crowd happy. Asian pear, nectarine, crushed rock and pithy citrus aromas bring great tension to the nose. The palate delivers a chalky minerality, bright and fresh acidity and refreshing if slightly sour lime peel flavors. Editors' Choice
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
Albariño is one of the purest white wine grapes available in the marketplace. While not as omnipresent as Chardonnay, Pinot Grigio, Sauvignon Blanc, one can certainly find them—mostly from Spain in the old world and many now from the United States in the new world, this grape that originated from the Iberian Peninsula has largely remained unspoiled by the wine marketers. The 2015 Verdad Albariño represents the grape variety well. Fresh and full of lemon zest, stone fruit, and cleansing minerality, this is wine for the simple of seafood entrées. Drinks well now. (Tasted: August 22, 2016, San Francisco, CA)
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.
California’s coolest wine growing area, Edna Valley excels in the production of high quality Central Coast wines like Pinot noir, Chardonnay, Rhône Blends and aromatic white wines. It has a cool Mediterranean climate and an incredibly long growing season, giving late-ripening varieties plenty of opportunity to develop great phenolic complexity.
Its northwest to southeast orientation creates a direct path for cool Pacific air and fog to penetrate the valley from the Los Osos and Morro Bay area inwards. Low hillsides of both calcareous and volcanic soils are home to much of the vineyard acreage of the Edna Valley.