Type | White wine |
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Allergens | Contains sulfites |
Alcohol contenti | 12.5% |
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Spec sheet
The wine
Much more than a great white wine, Mar de Frades is an amazing example of the expressiveness contained in Albariño grapes. A unique wine with hints of the sea and a seductive elegant freshness and spectacular character in an unmistakable blue bottle.
Vines grow on hillsides facing the Ría de Arousa estuary in the heart of the Salnés valley. Only the very best grapes, perfectly ripe and healthy, are chosen and taken in small crates to the winery for processing where a careful selection process removes about another 13% of the grapes which are not considered good enough to produce Mar de Frades. The fruit is then macerated with its skins for 40 hours in a carbon dioxide rich environment to avoid any chance of oxidation or spreading of bacteria. The result is a clean and extremely floral wine must which is then fermented with its own yeasts to bring out the Atlantic and varietal aromas. Finally, the wine is left to stand on its lees for 5 months to create a rounded and wide final product.
The Mar de Frades bottle features a heat-sensitive label which reveals an illustration of a small boat when the wine is cooled to its ideal serving temperature. On pouring it displays a crystal-clear lemon yellow colour with glints of green apple, a radiant aspect which invites us to lift a glass and admire the floral notes of jasmine and violets blended in with fennel, mango and apricots and intense saline notes. Daring and forceful on the palate, Mar de Frades is a white wine brimming with ripe fruit and persistent sensations of freshness which eventually lead to a sophisticated finish with a wonderful Atlantic character. Try it and you are sure to understand why this popular wine has deservedly won a place among the best white wines in Spain.
What does this wine taste like?
View | Pale yellow / Greenish glints |
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Bouquet | Fruit aromas / Peach / Lemon peel / Herbaceous notes / Mineral notes |
Mouth | Fresh / Silky / Long / Balsamic notes / Saline notes |
Drinking and storing
Food pairing
Steamed seafood / Goose barnacle / Steamed clams
Customer reviews
Delicious crisp white wine full of the sea
I tasted this wine at a wonderful seafood restaurant on the Isle of Wight with lobster freshly caught from the bay. My search for its shipper was easily navigated and the delivery of a case of wine from Vinissimus was fast and inexpensive. A wonderful pairing for fish and seafood, drunk very cold on a hot summer's day as we have been enjoying in England this summer, this wine excels where many more traditional fish-accompanying wines such as quality Muscadet have become more risky. Could not recommend more highly. And beautifully bottled in what we would call in England "Bristol" blue glass.
Silky and fresh
This is a delicious Albarino. You can taste the fresh juicy fruit with a touch of citrus and peach on the nose. Delicate yet silky and deserving of Decanter Magazines best joint Albarino in its recent review. Great value and suitable as an aperitif or with fish. Yum!
Fantastic Fresh Albarino
Maybe not quite as good as the 2015 vintage but still a lovely fresh Albarino for a great price. What else can you get for under £15 a bottle which has such depth of flavour?
One of the better Albarinos
For me this is one of the better Albarinos form Vinissimus. I never managed to get the "ship trick" to work, but hey the wine is very nice...
Highly recommended
Great service and very efficient. The wine was fantastic, it was a wine we enjoyed in Barcelona, even without the sun we loved it in the UK!
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