Bodegas Albamar, O Sebal, 2024

£31.60

Single‑parcel Albariño from Galicia with Atlantic salinity and bright orchard‑fruit notes; the 2024 release was bottled without appellation and made without added sulfites.

green apple
citrus peel
sea spray
saline

At a glance

Producer: Bodegas Albamar
Region: Galicia
Appellation: Vino de España
Grape: Albariño
Vintage: 2024
Country: Spain
Wine type: White
Alcohol: 13.0%
Size: 75.0cl
Farming: Organic — practising

Taste profile

Acidity: High
Tannin: Low
Sweetness: Dry

What to eat with it

grilled prawns
steamed clams
pulpo a la gallega
grilled sea bass

How to serve it

Serve: Lightly chilled (12–14°C)

Why Cave selected it

Pure, Atlantic‑driven Albariño from a single site showing clarity, sapid minerality and freshness; a characterful, low‑intervention bottling that’s excellent with seafood.

About the wine

Named O Sebal, after the algae where seahorses hide (hence the seahorse on the label as well). From a single plot of organically-cultivated 60 year-old-vines.Hand harvested, fermented with indigenous yeasts, unfiltered.

About Bodegas Albamar

Xurxo Alba’s family has been farming and making Albariño in Rïas Baixas O Salnés region, near the Atlantic Ocean, for generations (Alba+mar). It wasn’t until Xurxo finished his oenology studies that the Alba family started bottling and commercializing their wines in 2006. The Alba family owns 2.5 hectares, and sources approximately 10 hectares throughout the region. Albamar is one of only a handful (2%!) of domaines in the region using natural yeasts for their fermentation, which has a dramatic impact on both the aromatics and flavour of albariño, giving the wines much more depth, complexity and interest.

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