Third in a series of aperitif wines served at the Kessler Cassoulet Dinner 2015
Ah, but an old and trusted friend is calling, so I force myself to move on to the Albariño do Ferreira Cepas Vellas from the Rias Baixas. Every time I sip this wine I visualize that magnificent picture of the owner standing beneath the old vines, so thick and massive, having progressed from pergola trellised vines to the status of gnarly, twisted and luxuriantly leaved trees. Such fruit. Such focus and intensity. Such minerality, with lean acidic austerity and fat richness of fruit, side by side. For me---and I know it is one of those totally subjective decisions and can be endlessly debated, but that’s the way it goes----the Cepas Vellas do Ferreiro is the benchmark of everything I admire about Albariño.
