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Buyer’s Guide to Vintages November 8th Release
John Szabo’s Vintages Buyer’s Guide November 8: Wines for Every Festive Moment & Careful where you Put Your Shovel: the Best of Campania Stories 2025 By John Szabo MS, with notes from David Lawrason, Michael Godel, Megha Jandhyala and Sara d’Amato A Flurry of Highlights Greeting us this year with unusually early snow, November does […] More
Campania Stories 2025 Part Two: Buyer’s Guide Rosso e Rosato
By John Szabo, MS The 14th edition of Campania Stories, the annual preview tasting of new vintages from all regions in Campania, Italy, unfolded this year in Ercolano (Herculaneum) on the western slopes of Vesuvius, just outside of Napoli. The Bay of Naples and Vesuvius from the Island of Procida ©John Szabo See the Part […] More
Campania Stories 2025: Part One Buyer’s Guide White Wines
By John Szabo, MS The 14th edition of Campania Stories, the annual preview tasting of new vintages from all regions in Campania, Italy, unfolded this year in Ercolano (Herculaneum) on the western slopes of Vesuvius, just outside of Napoli. View from Ischia ©John Szabo I spent a week this past May tasting and touring in […] More
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Albariño is the primary grape used to make dry white wine in the Rias Baixas (Lower Inlets) section of the Galicia region of Northwestern Spain. Considered by many to be Spain's premier quality white wine, Albariño is also known in Portugal as Alvarinho and often used as a component of Vinho Verde. Weather conditions in the Rias Baixas are generally cool, windy and rainy. Vines must be trained high and open to allow winds to dry them out and avoid the ongoing threat of rot, mildew and other fungal diseases. Notably, Albariño grapes develop thick skins here, contributing to their intense aromas. Typically, wines made from Albariño are very aromatic, often described as having scents of almonds or almond paste, apples, peaches, citrus, and flowers or grass. Albariño wines are particularly suited to seafood due to their bracing acidity - which some producers have tempered with extra roundness, by aging the wines on lees, giving them a fuller texture. This grape's inherent tartness should be embraced in youth, for wines made from albariño do not age well, and the vibrant aromas begin to noticeably fade within months of bottling.
