Acios da Xesteirina Albarino 2023 Jura and Savoie a warm-but-balanced profile that suits

a warm-but-balanced profile that suits Auxey's cool site beautifully

The light hay colouring is loaded with greenish reflections

and dark fruit creating striking complexity

the vineyard lies due east of Yountville

The late and cool 2023 vintage is among the greatest winegrowing seasons in modern Californian history – in fact

Acios da Xesteirina Albarino 2023 Jura and Savoie a warm-but-balanced profile that suitsMost Rias Baixas Albarino is easy, breezy seaside white this is the serious cousin. Jose Manuel Dominguez farms a single 1. 1 hectare plot near the Atlantic in the Val do Salnes, where vines planted in 1972 and 1986 dig into unusually hard, metamorphic tinged bedrock beneath barely any topsoil. The result is a denser, more mineral, more concentrated take on Galicia's signature grape. Fermented with native yeasts and raised partly in old oak, unfined