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2024 Do Ferreiro Albariño Rias Baixas

2024 Do Ferreiro Albariño Rias Baixas

94RP
94TA
91JD
$34.99

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94

Wine Advocate

Reviewed July 2025
When I tasted this wine in mid-June, the nose of the 2024 Albariño was still too closed and a little reductive to show its true colors, but it was in the palate where I could see the harmony and balance of the year, a year with purity and elegance, with a perfect balance between alcohol and ripeness and freshness and acidity, with textbook parameters for good development of aromatics and flavors while keeping the spark from the granite soils. It's very Salnés. Some 90,000 bottles will be produced, but some wine is still to be bottled and kept with the fine lees in stainless steel. (LG)

Professional Reviews

94

Tim Atkin

Review Date: 06/2025
The Mendéz family's textbook Albariño uses grapes from a mind-boggling 164 small parcels in the Val do Salnés villages of Cambados, Castrelo, Meaño, Ribadumia and Sanxenxo. The kind of wine that makes you long for a plate of fresh seafood, it's racy, pure and superbly balanced, all citrus, lime and wet stones and impressive palate length.

91

Jeb Dunnuck

Review Date: 01/2026
One of the standard-bearers of the appellation, the 2024 Albariño Do Ferreiro is also the producer’s flagship wine, blended from 164 plots over several hectares across the Val Do Salnés, the most important and historic subzone of Rias Baixas. Light-bodied, it offers sublime lemony and tangerine flavor and a grippy texture kept fresh and nervy from the lovely acidity. It’s a beautifully balanced wine that will continue to drink well another 6-8 years.

Notes

The story of the Méndez family is deeply tied to Galicia’s native Albariño grape. Gerardo Méndez, alongside his father Francisco, was one of just 14 growers who helped establish the Rías Baixas DO back in 1988. But his work with Albariño started well before that. This first wine, made in 1973, didn’t even have a label. When he finally released his first labeled bottling a decade later, he called it Do Ferreiro (“The Blacksmith”), a nod to the family’s roots. Today at Do Ferreiro, the Méndez family farms more than 175 tiny parcels of Albariño by hand, all scattered around their home in the Salnés subzone. With the Atlantic nearby and mountain ranges offering natural protection, the location is ideal for producing Albariño with elegance and purity.

Details

OriginRias Baixas, Spain
Type/VarietalOther White Wines
Alcohol Content13.5%
SKU1994725