Alma de Mar, a numbered jewel

We've done three of the 1,000 bottles of Albariño wine lees Albamar that establishes each year, Alma de Mar, and quickly have gathered some friends to open and share it with them so little.

The first bottle is a wine tasting companion Mencia Designation of Origin Ribeira Sacra, Fusco, in Galician means "evening". Both wines are the fruit of the work of Alba and winemaker Xurxo wine tasting will upload another day.

This wine is made from strains of a parcel which is at the mouth of the river Umía with the Ria de Arosa. It is a plot with low yield, about 6,000 kilos per hectare when the normal of this area is in excess of 10.000k/ha.

The main feature in the production of this wine is allowed to stand it on its lees for almost six months. The lees are dead yeast deposited after alcoholic fermentation. The intent with this process is to give the wine complexity, smoothness and stability to the wines thanks to the contributions made to break the yeast cell wall.

This is due to perform "batonnage" which means removing the wine on the lees for the latter are in suspension and thus obtain additional aeration. In this case, during the first three months is done "batonnage" daily and the rest every week or ten days.


WINE TASTING

Burgundy-style bottle of thick glass with greenish color and dressed in fine stripes cheerful label in white and blue.

Visual: Lemon yellow, crystalline, brilliant. With slow and thick tear

Nose: A very elegant wine with fresh input. They leave notes of citrus (lemon, lime), balsamic (laurel), pastries (brioche), white fruit (pear) and a sweet touch of vanilla. salinity

Palate: creamy, velvety, subtle, with perfect acidity and structure. Are the notes of citrus and fruit predominate. Its finish is medium-long journey leaving his mouth hung with the final smoothness and taste very fresh.

Of course, in blind tasting could never claim to be an Albariño from Rias Baixas.

A wine that blends with seafood, fish and fresh goat cheeses, Emmental, and so on.

The only but I found ... there are only 1,000, not 997 bottles.