2012 Pazo de Senorans Blanco Seleccion Anada

Pazo Señorans’s Selección de Añada is unlike other Albariño. The fruit comes from a single plot of 45-year-old vines trained on the Rías Baixas’s trademark pergolas. The wine spends three years on lees in stainless steel, and is then held back until the winery believes it’s ready to drink. A far cry from some anonymous whites made with the variety, this is a serious and age-worthy wine. The latest release, the 2012, has earned yet another high rating from the respected Peñín Guide, with 98 points. And it is another terrific vintage for this overdelivering Albariño. Bright lemon in colour with a hint of green, it looks fresh as a daisy in the glass. The bouquet of lemon and lime pith, fennel, woodruff and garrigue herbs, and loads of mineral, sea air, oyster shell and iodine aromas are invigorating and stimulating. On the palate too, it is full and textured, but with a clean mineral structure, slickness and bright acidity. With air, those austere, fresh, savoury and saline aromas and flavours fill out with apricots and melon fruit. Delicious, versatile and will easily age for another five years.