Saturday, April 5, 2008

Pazo Senorans, Albarino, Rias Baixas (Spain) 2006

Platinum/yellow.

Slight CO2 fizz. Fresh apple, nut, and white peach aromas. Deep, ripe.

Deep apple/apple skin/mineral flavors. Immediately framed by driving, "minerally", acidity (undoubtedly enhanced by CO2) that coats the front teeth. Pretty powerful, stuff at the moment, but not showing a great deal of complexity. We'll see what happens as the CO2 dissipates.

Day 5 - Believe it or not, this thing is singing. Nuts (litchee and almond), fresh apple on the nose. Refined, pure flavors of apple skin, mineral/rocks, white peach, face powder. Huge mineral/apple-chew finish.

Killer.

$22