Bodegas La Caña Albarino
$18.00
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Vintage: 2021
Region: Rias Baixas, Spain
Viticulture: Practicing Organic
Grape varieties: 100% Albarino
Bodegas La Caña Albarino is a fresh Spanish white, with gorgeous citrus, tangerine, and lychee fruit as well as a medium-bodied, very pure, clean, vibrant style on the palate. It’s an impeccably made, clean, crisp, juicy white that’s going to shine with just about any food out there. a Caña is a wine that Jorge Ordóñez and his winemaking team craft to demonstrate the potential that Albariño shows as a high-quality, serious varietal. As Jorge was the first person to export this variety, he has a tremendous passion and appreciation for Albariño, and he decries the use of Albariño to make simplistic, mass-produced, and commercial wines. La Caña demonstrates the complexity, intensity, and longevity Albariño can achieve when sourced from old vineyards and using serious winemaking practices.
Song: Of Its Own Kind by Glenn Jones
Additional information
| NATTINESS | Not Natty |
|---|---|
| FRUIT | Citrus, Lime, Tangerine |
| BODY | Medium-bodied |
| ACIDITY | Bright (Medium-High) |
| OAK | Neutral Oak |
| TANNIN | None |
| ALCOHOL | 13-14% |
| SWEETNESS | Dry |
| SERVING TEMP | Chilled Whites and Rosés (48°–52°) |
| SULFUR | Low Sulfur (less than 50mg/L) |
| VEGAN | Unknown |
| IMPORTER | Jorge Ordonez |
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ABOUT THE PRODUCER
About Bodegas La Caña Albarino
Bodegas La Caña Albarino is a fresh Spanish white, with gorgeous citrus, tangerine, and lychee fruit as well as a medium-bodied, very pure, clean, vibrant style on the palate. It’s an impeccably made, clean, crisp, juicy white that’s going to shine with just about any food out there. a Caña is a wine that Jorge Ordóñez and his winemaking team craft to demonstrate the potential that Albariño shows as a high-quality, serious varietal. As Jorge was the first person to export this variety, he has a tremendous passion and appreciation for Albariño, and he decries the use of Albariño to make simplistic, mass-produced, and commercial wines. La Caña demonstrates the complexity, intensity, and longevity Albariño can achieve when sourced from old vineyards and using serious winemaking practices.
About Bodegas La Caña
Jorge Ordóñez is the United States’ most important pioneer for the Albariño grape and D.O. Rias Baixas, as he was the first person to introduce this grape and region to the U.S. in 1991. Told he would never sell more than 100 cases of Albariño in New York City, he persevered and now owns a winery in the Valley of Salnés, the best appellation of D.O. Rias Baixas.
Named for the straw-like canas (reeds or canes) that line the shores of the Atlantic inlets that carve into the granite coast of Galicia, the winery’s philosophy is to produce a traditional, authentic, and serious Albariño, in the style of the artisan wines that Ordóñez discovered when he first arrived in the appellation in 1991.
When Jorge first traveled to Rías Baixas, the D.O. did not officially exist. What he found was a rich culture of family viticulture and winemaking. Most families had small plots of Albariño planted on pergolas built with posts taken from the mother rock – granite. Most of this Albariño was fermented and aged on the lees in large chestnut foudres.
Jorge also selected D.O. Valdeorras due to its unique conditions for growing Mencía, Galicia’s most important red grape. The combination of slate soils, high altitudes, old vines, and warmer climates compared to the rest of Galicia provide Valdeorras with the best terroir for growing Mencía.