Zárate Albariño Rías Baixas “El Palomar” 2020

Zárate winery is a historic cellar in Rías Baixas, pioneering the development of Albariño since the 18th century. El Palomar is a pre-phyloxera vineyard that was planted in the 1850s and is one of the oldest surviving vineyards in the world. Like Balado, there is very little topsoil over a mother rock of hard granite. Here, the wine is fermented and aged in a large, old 22 HL foudre and encouraged to finish its malolactic fermentation. Given the incredible vine age, this wine often displays the most haunting complexity and depth of the single vineyards.