After a fast four days and many stops in wine bars, bodegas, tabernas, and restaurants in Madrid my love of exciting racy white wines with character was revived just as it was in Lyon with those delightful Beaujolais Blancs and then again in the Languedoc-Roussillon (Occitaine). On the trip, the joy of brilliantly crafted, fruit driven, elegant, and soft wines triggered back many of the reasons that led me to want to share my views on wine.
One of the joys of the trip was tasting wines from Rías Baixas region, where the Albariño evokes so much goodness and serves as the ideal complement for anything that comes out of the water, or just needs to be drunk all by itself.
The 2018 La Liebre y La Tortuga Albarino Rias Baixas from Fento Wines is that kind of wine. Coastal climate in nature, with the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and grown on weathered sandy granite soils, it’s a young wine meant to be drunk young. It’s vibrant. It’s fresh tasting. It’s lively, and most of all, it’s fruit driven. As Albarino wines go, the 2018 La Liebre y La Tortuga Albarino sets a mark for the vintage. It has style and grace that’s comes from the slightly green tinged color that also makes it so seductive.
Aromas of passion fruit and citrus fruit capture your attention. Then comes the lemon, lime, orange and lemon zest appealing flavors on the first and through until the last sip.
It’s a not so much the charm the 2018 La Liebre y La Tortuga Albarino, brings, but the enjoyment that it delivers as you sit back, and just drink it.
That’s why the 2018 La Liebre y La Tortuga Albarino is today’s WineSiders’ Wine of The Day!!
