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Albillo Mayor 2025
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Barrel-fermented white

Albillo Mayor 2025

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Description

Albillo Mayor is the native white grape of the Duero, and it was only admitted as a principal variety of the D.O. Ribera del Duero in November 2019. Barely 1.3% of the appellation is planted with it. This is the wine that carries the family name, and it is not a secondary wine.

History and Winemaking

100% Albillo Mayor from selected plots across Fresnillo de las Dueñas, Fuentespina and Fuentelcésped. Limestone in the soil, which is what holds the acidity; cold nights, which is what keeps it. A white with weight rather than a white with sugar.

Harvested by hand, plot by plot. Fermentation and ageing in French oak — not to flavour the wine, but to give it the slow oxygen it needs to build texture. Albillo has, in Tim Atkin’s words, a natural affinity with oak. Used carefully, it does not cover the grape; it lengthens it.

Made to be kept. This is a white with a horizon in the bottle, not a wine to be drunk cold and quickly on the year it is released.

Tasting Notes

Appearance

Pale straw with a green edge, and a density in the glass that the colour does not announce.

Tasting Notes

Nose

Stone fruit, orange blossom, fennel and a chalk note underneath. It opens slowly and rewards patience in the glass.

Tasting Notes

Palate

Tension before weight. Saline, taut, with real grip on the mid-palate and a cool bitter edge on the finish that keeps it upright.

Excellent now; it will gain for at least five years and probably longer.

Albillo Mayor 2025

Recommended Pairing

Turbot on the bone. Roast poultry. Aged cheeses that a red would flatten. It is a white for the middle of a meal, not for the beginning of one.

Albillo Mayor 2025

Technical Sheet

Type of wine
White, barrel-fermented
Vintage
2025
D.O.
Ribera del Duero
Variety
100% Albillo Mayor
Aging
French oak
Alcohol
13,5 % vol
Serving temperature
10 – 12 °C
Format
75 cl
Producer
Valdecamellas · Fresnillo de las Dueñas (Burgos)
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