Godello 'Ceibo' 2023

One of Xurxo's projects outside of Rías Baixas - with a friend's vineyard in Valdeorras.... Grapes are grown organically and harvested by hand. Spontaneous fermentation with native yeasts and aged for 8 months with the lees in used French oak barrels. This allows the wine to breathe, but not overwhelm with the wine with flavors. Bottled unfined, with a mild filtration and low SO2 at bottling. Simply stunning, this wine not only ages beautifully but is elegant, complex, medium-bodied and shows delicate minerality. Less than 5,000 liters produced annually. *** If Sally sells seashells by the sea shore, Xurxo Alba makes Albariño al alba del mar (by the sea shore). If it were up to me, I’d stop right here. There’s really not much more to say. It’s what he was born to do. It’s what he knows best. He is the personification of Albariño. His cellar is in Cambados, next door to his parents’ restaurant and tienda de ultramarinos, a small shop selling local artisanal foodstuffs. His family ha