Adegas Gran Vinum Seleccion Especial Albarino – 2023 (750ml)

Made from100% Albario, grown on 50-year-old, estate-grown vines. Only free run juice was fermented in both stainless steel tanks and large neutral oak fuder. The wine was aged on its fine lees for 6+ months after fermentation.

94 points Wine Review Online

Adegas Gran Vinum, Ras Baixas (Galicia, Spain) Albario Seleccin Especial 2023 ($35): Ive never visited this producer despite liking the different releases quite consistently and always wondering how anybody worked up the nerve to give such a name to a winery! The usual recipe for success is to exceed lowered expectations, but this top bottling from the producer succeeds without needing any adjustment of expectations. It displays unusually impressive physical density for Albario but without any sense of heaviness, thanks to excellent balancing acidity. Classic fruit notes recalling white peaches are graced with equally classic aromas of white blossoms, along with added complexity from some saline minerality in the finish. Those who enjoy Albario often know that it need not be expensive, which is great. But they should also be sure to try a truly exemplary rendition at some point and this is certainly one that fits that bill…while living up to its name.
Michael Franz Jul 30, 2024

93 View from the Cellar

The 2023 Albario Seleccin Especial from Gran Vinum is made from fifty year-old vines and given seven months of aging on its fine lees prior to bottling. The wine offers up a complex bouquet of pink grapefruit, fresh lime, briny notes of ocean breeze, wet stone minerality, a touch of menthol and a topnote of dried flowers. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied and vibrant, with a lovely core of fruit, excellent mineral drive and grip, fine focus and a long, well balanced and complex finish. This is first class Albario! 2024-2040+. John Gilman; March April 2024, Issue 110.