Zárate Albariño 2022

The young, eponymous and unoaked Albariño 2022 Zarate feels stunning, super balanced, clean, expressive and round, a crowd pleaser. It's complex and harmonious, elegant and gentle. It's super tasty, with fully developed aromas and flavors and a long, salty finish. It has 13% alcohol and a soft texture. It's approachable, but it will also age. 60,000 bottles were produced. It was bottled in 10,000 bottle lots from February to June/July 2023.

Made in what Eulogio Pomares calls the warmer, "climate change vintage" of 2022, this has 0.5% more alcohol than the 2021 release. Sourced from six parcels on granite soils in Meaño, it's an appealingly fresh, perfumed style of Albariño, showing some leesy weight, pear, citrus and wet stone flavours and a mineral finish. 2023-26