Adegas Gran Vinum Nessa Albarino 6 or more bottles 2023

Bright yellow. More pungent and extroverted than the Esencia Divina, offering scents and flavors of ripe pit fruits, orange and herbs. Begins clenched but becomes fresher with air, finishing with resonating citrus and mineral qualities and excellent persistence. This will work with rich foods.

The best of the trio is the 2009 Esencia Divinia Albarino, a vineyard selection from both estate and purchased fruit. Its nose reveals mineral, saline (a whiff of sea salt), lemon, and spring flowers leading to a wine with more focus and definition as well as a lengthier finish. These Albarinos should be consumed over the next 2-3 years. The 2009 vintage was superb in Rias Baixas and hence for the Albarino grape. While the above three wines are solid efforts, they fail to reflect just how good 2009 was.