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Castro Martin Raw Albarino 2021
BOTTLE:
$44.00
Out of stock
SKU
84338
HALF-DOZEN: $250.80 or $41.80 each
DOZEN: $475.20 or $39.60 each
DOZEN: $475.20 or $39.60 each
Still owned and run by the founding family, the bodega of Castro Martín can be traced back as far as 1887. The current owner-winemaker is Angela Martín, committed to the traditional pergola trellises, as the canopy affords her excellent bunch control and yield management
Green-gold cereal nose, complimented by the abundant fruit: sliced apple, nashi flesh, chickpea meal, green rice stems, with nudges of celery dust, black basil and cucumber gin. To taste, the gorgeously rounded cereal and prickly pear fruit has an enlivening sweetsour tug, thanks to a tangle of subtle green elements - tarragon, watermelon skin, mint, lime. At first, trademark Salnes Valley acidity is prominent, along with Atlantic saline and granitic edginess - without filtration, the acidity is much less strangling, still shaping the wine, of course, but it's like someone who is genuinely great at drawing - the pen is lightly held, weaving away confidently, without being gripped … not 'weilded'. Unweilding acidity allows the wine to open delicately through the mouth, up into the roof and out to the sides of the mouth as it wishes, while line is constantly honoured.
Green-gold cereal nose, complimented by the abundant fruit: sliced apple, nashi flesh, chickpea meal, green rice stems, with nudges of celery dust, black basil and cucumber gin. To taste, the gorgeously rounded cereal and prickly pear fruit has an enlivening sweetsour tug, thanks to a tangle of subtle green elements - tarragon, watermelon skin, mint, lime. At first, trademark Salnes Valley acidity is prominent, along with Atlantic saline and granitic edginess - without filtration, the acidity is much less strangling, still shaping the wine, of course, but it's like someone who is genuinely great at drawing - the pen is lightly held, weaving away confidently, without being gripped … not 'weilded'. Unweilding acidity allows the wine to open delicately through the mouth, up into the roof and out to the sides of the mouth as it wishes, while line is constantly honoured.