Albarino Lagar de Besada 2024, Rias Baixas, Galicia, Spain

 Albarino Besada shows a clean straw yellow colour and then offers a very elegant nose - intense nuances of fresh fruit with a citrus background and saline aromas. It is crisp and clean on the palate and finishes clean, minerally and fresh.
But what makes it different - and far better in our view - is that it spent 5 months on its lees so it shows with a mouth filling richness on the palate, and it lasts and lingers. 
This is not a bone dry, austere version, it is crisp clean and full bodied on the palate. 

Albarino is a very popular now (barely known in Ireland at the turn of the century) but there are differences in styles within Rias Baixas and the wider Galicia area. It is a lovely fresh alternative to Sauvignon Blanc - a cleaner crisper style - more minerally - that's great with seafood, white meats etc.  Did you know that Ireland is one of the top 10 importers of Albarino world wide?  And the size of us! 

Alc. Vol. 12.5%

Last Tasted: July 2026