Rodrigo Méndez Cies Albariño 2023

Phwoar this is a posh albariño. Stick your snout in and it gives you creamy, supernally elegant and subtly smoky oak spice, like a really fine citrussy whisky, then you take a sip and it's an instant and sustained hit of electric acid-minerality that enlivens the palate and forces you to have another sip. It's fanciably elegant with creamy apricot and hints of white peach and loquat. That cool, laser-like, steely mineral zing hits you instanter. Absolutely woof.