2025 Albariño

2025 Albariño

 

Tasting Notes:

This lively wine with notes of honeydew and grapefruit has bright acidity and a lingering finish.  Try it with fish tacos or a classic warm spinach salad.

Winemaking Notes:

Our third time working with this lovely grape from Kraemer Vineyards in the Mount Angel area. The grapes were hand harvested and whole cluster pressed to minimize skin contact.  Pressing decisions are done by taste and the cycle was stopped at just over one bar of pressure in order to minimize potential phenolics.  After three days of settling, the juice was racked off its lees and inoculated.  Stainless steel fermentation with temperatures being kept at 55° to 58°F lasted about five weeks until the wine was nearly dry while still maintaining its lovely tropical flavors.  The wine was crossflow filtered and bottled under screwcap in January 2026. 

Harvest Notes:

2025 kickstarted the growing season with a warm and early spring that continued into a warm summer with a little late-summer heat.  Minimal rain led to a good fruit set in spring and low disease pressure throughout the growing season.  This all culminated in a quick and compressed harvest beginning with Maréchal Foch on September 19th and wrapping up with Riesling on October 17th, one of our earliest picks here in our 40 years at Airlie.  Great flavor concentration, balanced acidity and moderate alcohols means the 2025 wines will be excellent now and into the future.

Our estate vineyard, Dunn Forest, is LIVE certified sustainable and Salmon Safe. The vineyard is hand cultivated allowing us to respond to individual vine needs.

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