Lagar de Cervera Pazo de Seoane Albariño Loureiro 2024
£18.95
The wine
Crisp and vibrant, with floral nuances of jasmine underpinned by elegant notes of citrus, pear and melon. Lovely weight and structure lead to a refreshing, lively finish. A blend from O Rosal, where Loureiro comes into its own.
Pazo de Seoane blends Albariño with Loureiro and Treixadura, which is traditional in the O Rosal sub-zone and increasingly rare elsewhere as Albariño has come to dominate. Loureiro adds floral lift and Treixadura orchard-fruit weight, giving a rounder wine than straight Albariño.
The producer
Lagar de Cervera
View all Lagar de Cervera winesLagar de Cervera is the Rias Baixas estate of La Rioja Alta, acquired in 1988 when the Haro house looked beyond its home region for the first time.
Rias Baixas takes its name from the drowned river valleys of the Galician coast, and it is a green, wet, Atlantic place quite unlike most of Spain: rainfall exceeds 1,500 millimetres a year and the challenge is fungal disease rather than drought. Albarino is trained high on granite posts and wires, in pergolas called parras that lift the fruit above the damp ground and let air move through the canopy.
The grape gives stone fruit and citrus over a saline, almost salty finish, and it was made for the shellfish this coast produces in extraordinary quantity. The estate sits at O Rosal, one of the appellation's five sub-zones, close to the Portuguese border.
