Bodegas Fillaboa Albarino Seleccion Finca Monte Alto 2019
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Straw yellow with greenish hues, clean and bright. High aromatic intensity and notes of very mature fruit, apple, citrus fruits, freshly baked bread, brioche and subtle toasty notes that become more evident after time in the bottle. The palate is structured and fresh. Acidity is well-integrated, the flavor is smooth and buttery. The aftertaste offers ripe fruit aromas and is complex and round.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2019 Selección Finca Monte Alto was selected from one of their best plots that was planted trellised in 1988. It fermented in stainless steel, and malolactic was blocked to keep the freshness and aromatic profile of the variety; it was kept with the lees in stainless steel for 24 months. It's serious and balanced, a little shy and austere, with a dry palate with tasty flavors and very good freshness.
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A medium-bodied version showing lovely balance, with both a tangy streak of salinity and snappy acidity enlivening a creamy mix of poached apricot, white cherry, slivered almond and acacia blossom.
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
COMMENTARY: The 2019 Fillaboa Seleccion Finca Monte Alto is old-fashioned and authentic. TASTING NOTES: This wine exhibits aromas and flavors of savory spices, rustic earth, mineral notes, and chalkiness. Pair it with pan-fried sand dabs. (Tasted: December 6, 2022, San Francisco, CA)
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Fillaboa, meaning “the good daughter” in the Gallego dialect of northwestern Spain, produces some of the rarest and highest quality wine from the D.O. Rías Baixas. Bodegas Fillaboa’s estate is focused exclusively on the cultivation of Albariño, the star white wine of the region, famed for its freshness, complexity and compatibility with local seafood.
Bodegas Fillaboa is owned by the Masaveu family, which traces its winemaking history back to the 19th century. The family decided to invest in Galicia with the purchase of this unique and magic estate in Salvaterra de Miño. Today Fillaboa is home to a tasting facility and formidable art collection housed in a 15th century Romanesque castle near the River Miño that forms the border between Spain and northern Portugal.
In a region where most wineries make wines from purchased grapes, Fillaboa stands apart for its exclusive use of estate-grown fruit, ensuring quality control and consistency from vine to bottle. The estate’s deep devotion to quality is perfectly reflected in the Selección Finca Monte Alto, one of the very few single-vineyard estate wines produced in Rías Baixas, a racy white wine that sings with granite minerality and showcases Albariño’s quintessential freshness.
Bright and aromatic with distinctive floral and fruity characteristics, Albariño has enjoyed a surge in popularity and an increase in plantings over the last couple of decades. Thick skins allow it to withstand the humid conditions of its homeland, Rías Baixas, Spain, free of malady, and produce a weighty but fresh white. Somm Secret—Albariño claims dual citizenship in Spain and Portugal. Under the name Alvarinho, it thrives in Portugal’s northwestern Vinho Verde region, which predictably, borders part of Spain’s Rías Baixas.
Named after the rías, or estuarine inlets, that flow as far as 20 miles inland, Rías Baixas is an Atlantic coastal region with a cool and wet maritime climate. The entire region claims soil based on granite bedrock, but the inlets create five subregions of slightly different growing environments for its prized white grape, Albariño.
Val do Salnés on the west coast is said to be the birthplace of Albariño; it is the coolest and wettest of all of the regions. Having been named as the original subregion, today it has the most area under vine and largest number of wineries.
Ribeira do Ulla in the north and inland along the Ulla River is the newest to be included. It is actually the birthplace of the Padrón pepper!
Soutomaior is the smallest region and is tucked up in the hills at the end of the inlet called Ria de Vigo. Its soils are light and sandy over granite.
O Rosal and Condado do Tea are the farthest south in Rías Baixas and their vineyards actually cover the northern slopes of the Miño River, facing the Vinho Verde region in Portugal on its southern bank.
Albariño gives this region its fame and covers 90% of the area under vine. Caiño blanco, Treixadura and Loureira as well as occasionally Torrontés and Godello are permitted in small amounts in blends with Albariño. Red grapes are not very popular but Mencía, Espadeiro and Caiño Tinto are permitted and grown.