Crittenden Estate Los Hermanos
As a family we were at the forefront of promoting today's wine drinkers fascination with Italian grape varieties. Over the past couple of years we have been keen onlookers and admirers of a similar phenomenon with Spanish wines, albeit one driven more by wines from Spain than locally produced at this stage. Of course we are aware of the flourishing number of good locally produced Tempranillos and over the last year or so a handful of lovely Australian Albarinos have made their way on to the stage.
Albarino is the primary grape used to make dry white wine the Rias Baixes (Lower Inlets) section of the Galicia region of Northwest Spain. Typically, wines made from Albarino are very aromatic, often described as having scents of almonds or almond paste, apples, peaches, citrus, and flowers or grass. Albarino wines are particularly suited to seafood due to their bracing acidity.
The Albarino grape in Australia, in actual fact, has been for the past 20 years misidentified and is really the French variety Savagnin. Accordingly we have changed the name to "Tributo a Galicia" as a tribute to the spanish style.
Zoe and Rollo, without any prompting, went out and found locally grown fruit for both the above varieties and have this year (2008 vintage) made what we consider to be excellent replicas of their Spanish counterparts. The Tempranillo is now onto its second vintage and has been well accepted. And what does Los Hermanos mean? Why siblings of course, what else!
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