Albariño

Ideal with appetizers, seafood and fish. Recommended with soft cheese, Asian food, rice, pasta and poultry dishes. Best served at 10 to 12ºC.

100% Albariño grapes selected from our plots in O Rosal and O Salnés (D.O. Rías Baixas). We started the harvest on 16 September at the Silvosa vineyard (O Rosal) and one day later at our Viñadeiro vineyard (O Salnés). After an initial selection of bunches in the field, we hand-picked the grapes in small boxes, which were transported refrigerated to the winery.

For the first time ever, the entire harvest passed through an optical sorting machine —the first winery in Rías Baixas with this system— discarding grapes that did not meet our technicians’ strict parameters. After cooling and maceration, the wine was pressed in an inert atmosphere with nitrogen to prevent oxidation. After racking, the clean must was fermented at 15ºC. In this vintage, 33% of the tanks underwent malolactic fermentation. Right until bottling, the wine rests with its fine lees which are kept suspended with periodic stirrings, thus adding complexity to the wine.

In 1988, famed Rioja expositor La Rioja Alta stumbled across a unique parcel in the Rosal subzone of the Rías Baixas in Galicia. After acquiring this and a couple other parcels, their extensive know-how was brought to bear on some very different high-quality raw material from their usual: Albariño. Today this wine, Lagar de Cervera, ranks among the best in the region and certainly stands at the forefront of the Rosal subzone of the appellation.