White · Rías Baixas · España
Bodegas Gerardo Mendez Rias Baixas Albariño
Scored from 2,205 calibrated Vivino reviewers. Cohort: White · España (779 wines).
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Is Rias Baixas Albariño a good wine?
What reviewers say
“This has become one of the benchmark of what Albariño in Rias Baixas can be, the winery farms over 175 tiny plots of albariño by hand in the Salnès subzone, current winemaker Gerardo Méndez even let his chicken roam the vineyards as both natural pest control and creating natural …”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Complex aromas of salinity exotic fruits with wet earth/herbal tones. The palate is textured with excellent acidity.
Bodegas Gerardo Mendez Rias Baixas Albariño is Albarino grown in Rías Baixas, bottled as a white. The cheapest 750 ml listing found for it is $35.95, which puts the bottle in the $30–60 band.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against 778 other whites from Spain, not against the corpus as a whole. The calibrated figure is built from 2,205 of its Vivino reviewers. A broader pool of 2,255 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead.
- Cohort
- White · España · 779 wines
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Cohort: White · España
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