Martín Códax, Albariño, 2022, Spain
This Albarino from Spain is a great example of the grape, dry, light with a good dope of acidity. You get lemon, citrus and hints of peach on the flavours side. This would go very well with sea food, pasta in a white source or a zesty salad. At £13 a bottle it’s decent value.
Pazo Senorans, Albarino, 2016, Spain
£15 a bottle is a decent amount to pay for a wine, you want a good bottle but paying that for an Albarino is hard when there are so many good ones out their for less but this Albarino from Pazo Senorans is very good.
There’s loads going on, subtle but the package is well done. The colour is a wonderful lemon colour and there are aromas of pear, lemon, mellon, peaches and additional flavours of citrus, grapefruit and minerality. Its dry, light, decent wack of acidity, clean and quite elegant.
Its a bit pricey and I should have saved some for the next day but I loved it, its very good, excellent if the price was cheaper but then that’s my tightness 😉 shining through, price wise.
A silver medal winner at the Decanter World Wine Awards 2019 this Albarino from Pazo de San Mauro, Galicia in Spain is a great example of the grape and region.
You get apple and pear aromas with lemon, pineapple and hints of orange on the taste with a zesty, concentrated finish. Oh at £10 a bottle its very good value for money, naff said.
Pazo de San Mauro 2018 Albariño, Galicia, Spain
Read the back of the bottle and it gives you the usual blurb on what it goes with, fish, rice, pasta, tapas, scrambled eggs! Therefore I would conclude that this wine should actually be drunk for breakfast. I therefore the thought what else would this go with.
Never let It be said that I did not do a serious review. Yes you get the usual aromas and flavours honeysuckle and and lemon with the feeling of high acidity. As a 2015 vintage this is a really deep golden colour with a stronger flavour that you’d get with the age over a younger albarino. But the real question is does this go with cadburys caramel buttons? The sweetness of the caramel is high and is picked up with honey notes from the wine, when both are cold it’s a really nice combination, the other one you could try is an cold chardonnay with cadbury’s milk chocolate and suck the milk chocolate while drinking the wine.
La trucha 2015 Albarino tasting with caramel buttons