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Zarate Balado Albariño 2021
Rías Baixas, Galicia, SpainFounded in 1707, the family owned Zárate estate is located in Rias Baixas' Vale do Salinas subregion. Their sloping, weathered granite vineyards are translated via Albariño, a grape intrinsically associated with the estate. Seventh-generation Eulogio Pomares runs this historic bodega today, farming almost fully biodynamically. From the oldest vineyard of Albariño in Rias Baixas, planted pre-phylloxera, these granitic-soiled vines in Val do Salnés are around 150 years old, and farmed with some biodynamic principles. After a native ferment in stainless, this is left on lees for 9 months, without bâtonnage, or MLF. Quite a powerful wine, with crushed stones bedding white peach, medicinal white cherry, meadow grass across a structural palate, slicked with lees, ringing with granitic minerality, and lingering with salinity. A beauty.Tasted: 01 June 2023Tasted by: Treve RingPrices:| ON | $79.00 | 750ml | consignment |
Bonvida Wines
Grape: Albariño
