Acios da Xesteirina Albarino 2023 Jura and Savoie Grapes are pressed on a

Grapes are pressed on a traditional wooden press

The late and cool 2023 vintage is among the greatest winegrowing seasons in modern Californian history – in fact

the vineyard lies due east of Yountville

the 2022 finishes wildly fresh and long with staining lemony concentration

Acios da Xesteirina Albarino 2023 Jura and Savoie Grapes are pressed on aMost Rias Baixas Albarino is easy, breezy seaside white this is the serious cousin. Jose Manuel Dominguez farms a single 1. 1 hectare plot near the Atlantic in the Val do Salnes, where vines planted in 1972 and 1986 dig into unusually hard, metamorphic tinged bedrock beneath barely any topsoil. The result is a denser, more mineral, more concentrated take on Galicia's signature grape. Fermented with native yeasts and raised partly in old oak, unfined