Señorío de Cruces Albariño, Rías Baixas (Case of 12)
Twelve bottles of our best-selling albariño. Stone-fruit and a heady aroma of earth, mineral and granite, glossy yellow fruit.
12 x Señorío de Cruces Albariño from Rías Baixas DO is 100% albariño. It is vivacious and lively with soft stone fruit and grapefruit on the nose and palate. Lourdes Castro is the third-generation to oversee the family-run adega (gallego for bodega) in this small fold in the hills around the Ulla River, an inland subzone of Rías Baixas about 20 km south of Santiago de Compostela. Ría means estuary and rías baixas means lower estuaries. These little inlets dot the landscape up and down the coast. The mild Atlantic climate sends high levels of humidity that settles into the vineyard areas. To avoid the rot that would happen should the grapes sit on the damp ground, they are elevated on a granite-post trellis system called an emparrado. Sitting up on the emparrado, the thick-skinned albariño aerates and has a better chance of ripening through the spring and summer. Alcohol is 13%.