Bodegas Castro Martin Albarino 2022

Made with selected grapes from prime vineyard locations, the Family Estate wine exhibits many fine, elegant qualities. With a distinct salty minerality on the nose, and an array of pure, clean, limpid white fruit (pear, peach and a touch of apricot) aromas. The palate almost shimmers with tang and vibrancy, and although it has a steely precision, it is balanced by fruit with a peachy pear-like quality and backed by a vivid streak of lemon and mineral acidity.

In the case of Albariño, that has intense fruit flavours and a zesty natural acidity; there are some very food obvious matches that come to mind. For example, it is absolutely no coincidence that the region of Galicia, where the Albariño grape finds its natural home, is also the base for a large proportion of the Spanish fishing fleet, and there can be no greater pleasure than washing down a plate of fresh oysters or indeed any shellfish with a chilled glass of the local grape