2007 Pazo de Senorans Albarino

We had a bit of a Spanish night last night – well at least with regard to the wines. We were cooking a pasta dish using ingredients from the garden topped up with some more challenging ingredients from the supermarket. Some red onion, lemon, capers, flaked salmon, pepper and salt. Quite simple but nice on this hot Sydney evening. So I was looking for a mediteranean wine to accompany it. Although this isn’t strictly speaking near the Mediteranean Sea it’s close.

Before dinner I had a glass of left over Bons Ventos (https://nicedrop.wordpress.com/2010/09/19/2008-quinta-de-bons-ventos/) with some cheese before dinner. I still can’t get over what excellent value this wine represents. I’ve bought a couple of dozen of these over recent months and I’d got to get some more. It’s just so nice and pleasant to drink and goes easily with some much food we eat. And at Vintage Cellars it’s a bargain to boot!

But anyway, on to the main event with the pasta. Being salmon and a hot humid evening I elected for a white and chose the 2007 Pazo de Senorans Albarino. I bought it recently after falling in love with the A2O Albarino (https://nicedrop.wordpress.com/2010/09/19/2008-a2o-albarino/) and in my desire to try others I’ve not quite fulfilled my ambition of bettering the A2O experience.

But still the Pazo de Senorans opened well with a fair quality cork. It poured light and golden in to the glass and drank perfectly with the well flavoured dish. It was quite high acidity so cut through the red onion and capers and with enough body to managed the BBQ’d salamon. I couldn’t taste the apples that others were commenting upon, but maybe a couple of years in the bottle knocks this out of the wine. I could certainly taste the citrus which accompanied the lemon in the dish (we were a bit heavy handed with the lemon when cooking it.)

Some history of the wine maker is provided by Snooth “Pazo de Senorans was established in 1989 in the village of Vilanoviña, Meis lying in the middle of the vineyards of the Val do Salnés sub region of Rias Baixas. Rias Baixas is in the Galicia area of northwest Spain, bordered on to the north by the Cantabrian Sea and to the south by the Atlantic Ocean. The bodega was bought by Marisol Bueno and her husband Javier Mareque and in 1979 they began by restoring the old farm buildings with a view to producing only Albariño.”

This is a good wine, but not as great (to my taste) as the A2O. But for an introduction to Albarino you wont go wrong with a bottle of two of this. If you haven’t tried Albarino before – then if you like Voignier or Verdehlo you’ll love this Spanish equivalent with a little added sunshine in every bottle!

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