Galicia is Spain’s green, rain-soaked, Atlantic-facing corner — a landscape of granite hillsides, river estuaries, and a coastline of extraordinary beauty that looks nothing like the Spain of popular imagination and produces white wine of a freshness, a mineral precision, and an aromatic intensity that is quite unlike anything else on the Iberian peninsula. Albaríno is Galicia’s great white grape — the variety that put Rías Baixas on the world wine map and that produces, at its finest, whites of a citrus-driven vibrancy, a saline minerality, and a crisp, mouthwatering acidity that makes them one of the world’s great food wines and one of its most completely and joyfully irresistible summer discoveries. Lagar de Costa is a producer with deep roots in the Rías Baixas appellation and a commitment to expressing the true character of Galician Albaríno with honesty and care. The vines for this wine average 30 years of age — old enough to have developed the deep root systems and the natural yield restriction that produce fruit of a real concentration, complexity, and depth of character that younger vines simply cannot match. The 2025 is a wine of real distinction: white peach and hints of citrus on the nose, with aromas of white flowers adding a delicate floral lift, and a palate of crisp acidity and mineral precision that is the hallmark of great Albaríno from old vines on granite soils. A stunning example of what Galicia does better than almost anywhere else in the world.