2020 Manuel Moldes A Capela de Aios Albarino, Rias Baixas, Spain Les Capriades chestnut honey

chestnut honey

offering a viscerally saline evocation of the nearby Mediterranean

•Naturally low yields from mostly old vines

Making of: the grapes are harvested by hand with a careful selection of only very healthy and ripe bunches

10% whole cluster

2020 Manuel Moldes A Capela de Aios Albarino, Rias Baixas, Spain Les Capriades chestnut honeyA Capela de Aios is named after the tiny capela (church) in the small hamlet of Aios, located outside the Ra de Pontevedra. The vineyards sit on a mound of schist, a unique rock formation in a largely granite land, which Manuel says makes up 99. 9% of all the vineyard area within the Val do Salns. Hes drawn to the expression of wines from this hill, not only because they are rare, but because they bring a very different shape and dimension to Albario