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2023 Do Ferreiro "Cepas Vellas" Albariño Rias Baixas

2023 Do Ferreiro "Cepas Vellas" Albariño Rias Baixas

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Tim Atkin

Review Date: 06/2024

Tasted from tank just before bottling, this is the latest in a run of brilliant Albariños from a 1.4-hectare parcel of pre-phylloxera vines next to the bodega. Effortlessly complex, poised and well balanced, it’s one of Spain's greatest whites, showing remarkable purity and focus. Long, complex, textured and refreshing, with granitic intensity and a salty tang.

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Wine Advocate

Review Date: 07/2025
96+ points. The nose of the 2023 Albariño Cepas Vellas is very austere, and it took a long time in the glass to take off. It has lower alcohol and more contained ripeness than its siblings, with a brighter color and a higher-pitched palate, serious and austere, like liquid granite to me. This is pure elegance and finesse in a year of great balance. 9,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in August 2024, a little later than the other 2023s. It should be very long lived. (LG)

Notes

Do Ferreiro is one of the benchmark estates of Galicia’s Rías Baixas, celebrated for revealing the serious, age-worthy side of Albariño, and nowhere is that more evident than in Cepas Vellas. This wine is produced from a one-hectare vineyard that contains some of the oldest Albariño vines in the Salnés Valley—many planted over 200 years ago—trained in the traditional pergola system and rooted in granitic, sandy soils that naturally limit vigor and yield. These ancient vines produce fruit of remarkable concentration and mineral intensity, giving Cepas Vellas a depth, texture, and saline precision that set it apart from more straightforward expressions of the grape.

Product Details

Origin: Rias Baixas, Spain

Type/Varietal: Other White Wines

SKU: #1957920