Abacela Albariño (Umpqua Valley)

Ficha técnica

Tipo

Other

Uva

Albariño

País

United States

Região

Umpqua Valley · Southern Oregon

Denominação

Umpqua Valley

Corpo

medium

Acidez

high

Doçura

dry

Safras avaliadas

• 201692 pts

  This is an over-the-top vintage for this wine; it's simply crammed full with floral and fresh fruit flavors. Grapefruit, peach and melon notes are in abundance, all juicy, ripe and resonant. It would be hard to imagine a better or more versatile non-Chardonnay white at this pric…

• 201588 pts

  Grapefruit scents and flavors dominate this tasty wine. Some will find it identifies more closely with something akin to New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc, rather than a seasalty Albariño from Spain. No matter: It's fresh and zippy and best enjoyed within a couple years of the vintage.

• 201488 pts

  Aromatic and quite fruity, this offers flavors of peach, candied lemon and orange marmalade. It's fully dry, but all that fruit gives it a roundness missing from steelier Spanish versions.

• 201189 pts

  The 11th vintage of Abacela's Albariño is a racy wine, with excellent varietal character. Fruit flavors suggest a mix of cucumber, apple, citrus and melon. There's a trace of oyster shell minerality and a bracing whiff of sea breeze on the finish.

• 201090 pts

  From estate-grown fruit, this fresh, lightly frizzante, insanely crisp white wine brings all the tang and salt of the real deal from Spain. What marks it as New World is the fruit concentration, a dense thicket of midpalate citrus—lemon, lime and lots of grapefruit.