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| "[This is] what Xurxo Alba Padín was born to do. It’s what he knows best.
He is the personification of Albariño.
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| [Xurxo Alba Padín's] cellar is in Cambados, next door to his parents’ restaurant and tienda de ultramarinos, a small shop selling local artisanal foodstuffs. His family has been farming and making Albariño in the Val do Salnés of Rías Baixas for generations but it wasn’t until Xurxo finished his oenological studies that they started bottling and commercializing their own wines in 2006.
They own about 2.5 hectares (currently planting 6 more) but source from about a total of 10 hectares spread throughout this region dominated by smallholdings. Xurxo wishes they owned more but, like theirs, neighboring vineyards have been passed along from generation to generation and working them is a way of life. It’s a hobby. It’s what people do on their free time. It’s a lifestyle that money can’t buy. He farms and makes sure his farmers farm as naturally as possible, as much as the region permits. In the cellar, spontaneous fermentations with native yeasts are a common denominator in all of his wines. Whether he works the lees or uses oak is on a wine-by-wine basis, vintage by vintage.”
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| “Xurxo Alba Padín is an explosion of energy and doesn't stop experimenting …. He is one of the guys to watch.” Luis Gutiérrez, Wine Advocate
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‣ 100% single-vineyard Albariño from a 0.3-hectare plot planted in the 1980s in granite and clay. The wine undergoes spontaneous fermentation, undergoes some bâtonnage, and is aged 8 months in large foudre. Only 2,400 bottles produced.
"This is the only Albariño where they work the lees with bâtonnage .... smoky and leesy, with a round palate and integrated acidity."
93 Luis Gutiérrez, Wine Advocate
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‣ 100% single-vineyard Albariño from a plot near Alma de Mar planted in 2004 in sand and rich, coastal clays. The wine undergoes spontaneous whole cluster fermentation, saw malolactic fermentation blocked in this vintage, and aged 12 months sur lie in 2,500L foudre. Luis Gutiérrez, Wine Advocate
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‣ A selection of 100% Albariño from older (40-45-year-old) vines in five plots. The wine undergoes spontaneous fermentation in foudre, saw a partial malolactic fermentation in this vintage, and aged 12 months in a combination of 500L barrels and 2,400L foudre. Only 6,100 bottles produced.
"There were more iodine and low-tide notes in the nose of the 2021 Pepe Luis, with herbal and moss aromas, while the smoky notes were more in the background." Luis Gutiérrez, Wine Advocate
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