O Equilibrio, Albarino, Rias Baixas, 2023
The 2023 offers up citrus, white and orange fleshed fruits with a touch of wax and florality, reminiscent of certain Chenins. Clearly a schist wine, quite firm on the finish and well structured - a little more contoured, less of the race this year. Equilibrio is a blend of two sites on the north and south side of the mountain on schist soils, close to each other. A third, sandier-schist site came in to play in 2022, bringing a little more white fruit and top notes to the final wine.
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The wine that started it all goes even one step further in nuance, complexity and even balance. I'm taking about the superb 2023 O Equilibrio, cropped from a very balanced year with good ripeness and very good freshness. It's precise, multifaceted, subtle and elegant, with incredible detail, focused and precise like a laser cut. The word is balance, which is what the wine's name means. They aim for more complexity and structure than A Pedreira, produced mostly with grapes from the Xesteira vineyard on schist soils and two small plots on sandy soils in Arra. It fermented and matured in used 400- to 700-liter French oak barrels for 11 months. It has the following parameters: 13% alcohol, 3.26 pH and 7.9 grams of acidity. At this price, the quality is unbelievable. It should age beautifully. 12,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in August 2024.
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