Wine Spectator • 88 A bright, expressive White, bursting with peach, minera and tangerine flavors. Tender on the palate, but juicy acidity keeps this lively through the finish. Drink now.

Issue 3514, February 28, 2011 (Vintage 2009)

Wine Spectator • 89 Broad in texture yet firm and focused, this generous, lively white delivers pear, quince and mineral notes with good depth and balance. Drink now.

Issue 3709, November 15, 2012 (Vintage 2011)

Stephen Tanzer’s International Wine Cellar • 90 Bright straw. Highly perfumed bouquet of tangerine, white flowers, brown spices and talc. Vibrant and precise, offering tangy citrus and floral flavors and slow-mounting mineral character. Finishes with very good clarity and mineral cut, repeating the foral and spicy qualities.

Issue 145, July/aug 2009 (Vintage 2008)

Stephen Tanzer’s International Wine Cellar • 91 Pale Bellow. Intriguing high-pitched aromas of white peach, green tea, pear, lemon pith and minerals. Dense and powerful. But the citrus and nectarine flavors are kept fresh by zesty wine finishes with a whiplash of tangy citrus notes.

Issue 152, Sept/Oct 2010 (Vintage 2009)

Stephen Tanzer’s International Wine Cellar • 91 Light gold. Intense, mineral-dominated citrus and floral aromas, complicated by notes of herbs and white pepper. Lively acidity adds lift to the fresh, incisive flavors of orange pith and green apple, with a late note of anise adding nuance. Finishes juicy and long, with a resonating note of dusty minerals.

Issue 158, Sept/ Oct 2011 (Vintage 2010)

Stephen Tanzer’s International Wine Cellar • 91 Light, green-tinged gold. Intense aromas of white flowers, lime zest, pear and minerals, with a spicy overtone, Dry, racy and precise on entry, then deeper in the mid-palate, offering sappy orchard fruit and floral flavors and a touch of ginger. Finishes smooth and long, with resonating floral and spice notes, this wine ages well, by the way, as a recent bottle of the 2008 I drank recently sill attest.

Issue 164, Sept/Oct 2012 (Vintage 2011)

Stephen Tanzer’s International Wine Cellar • 91 Light, bright yellow. Wild, exotically perfumed aromas of pear skin, lemon curd, honey and white flowers, with a smoky overtone and slow-building minerality. Concentrated as well as lively, offering intense orchard fruit flavors and a bracing jolt of candied ginger. Sappy and penetrating on the persistent finish, which leaves suave floral and citrus pith notes behind.

Issue 170, Sept/Oct 2013 (Vintage 2012)

Wine & Spirits Magazine • 90 Supple and complex, this wine contrasts quartz-like minerality with fruit sweetness, creating a harmonious balance and subtle length. It finishes dry and minerally. For clams on the half shell.

Issue 3004, August 2011 (Vintage 2010)

The Wine Enthusiast • 88 Slightly dusty, spicy and cider-like on the nose, with a tight palata holding nectarine, melon and apple flavors. It’s fairly exact in terms of mouthfeel, while the finish is clean and reflects well on the wine. Drink now.

Issue 2208, August 2009 (Vintage 2008)

The Wine Enthusiast • 89 Apple and other White fruit aromas come with hints of sea foam and clam shell. The palate is tight, mineral-driven and citric, with some spritz. Flavors of apple and pithy citrus lead to a long, speedy finish, with generous acidity.

Issue 2512, December 31, 2012 (Vintage 2011)

The Wine Enthusiast • 90 Fresh hay and minerally white-fruit aromas lead to a firm, crisp, correct palate that’s home to saline-influenced flavors of apple, peach and river stones. This finishes long, firm and strong, with impeccable freshness.

Issue 2611, December 2013 (Vintage 2012)

Wine Review Online • 92 An ex this wine is produced from purchased grafes from vineyards averaging 25 years old. Winemaker, Enrique Piñeiro works with around 30 small growers in the Fal do Salnes sub-region of Rias Baixas, some with holdings as small as half a hectare. All of the fruit for this wine is hand harvested in small boxes. After cluster sorting the grapes are whole cluster pressed in a pneumatic press, followed by settling of the must with dry ice. The wine was fermented at 64º F in stainless steel tank. Ther is no malolactic fermentation. Aged for almost 2 months on fine lees. Emplary rendition of Albariño, Spain’s premier white grapes variety, this shows lots of rich, softly ripe peach fruit. However, the initial impression of ripeness almost immediately gives way to a more interesting profile as the wine shows its structural spine of driving acidity, as well as a faint effervescence from unresolved carbon dioxie that provides additional lift and textural definition

Issue August 4, 2009 (Vintage 2008)

The Wine Advocate • 88 The best of the rio is the 2009 Esencia Diviña Albariño, a vineyard selection from both estate and purchased fruit. Its nose reveals mineral, saline ( a whiff of sea salt), lemon, and spring flowers leading to a wine with more focus and definition as well as a lengthier finish. These Albariños shoulds be consumed over the next 2-3 years.

Issue 188, April 2010 (Vintage 2009)

Decanter • 90 Flinty nose with touches of wood oil, rosemary and basil. The very concentrated palate profile is fresh with green apples, lime zest and some pineapple richness in the background. Another young wine only just beginning to emerge.

Issue August 2012 (Vintage 2011)

Appearance:

Greenish yellow colour with hints of gold; clean and bright.

Nose:

Wonderfully fresh on the nose, with aromas of fermentation combined with fresh fruit. Intense yet well balanced.

Palate:

Rich and complex on the first taste, full of life, soft and silky, with a slinghtly sparkling tone on the tongue. Intense, with a persistent finish of mature fruit