Granbazán Albariño Etiqueta Ambar 2024 Cooking He farms around 21 hectares

He farms around 21 hectares organically and biodynamically

though the Cusiné family acquired the property in 1978

Lubbe is a reference point for the low-intervention movement in southern France

These are genuinely old vines on the same clay-limestone that grows the village and premier-cru-quality sites nearby

Granbazán Albariño Etiqueta Ambar 2024 Cooking He farms around 21 hectaresThe Land Rias Baixas sits at the same latitude as Bordeaux but has almost nothing in common with it. Val do Salnes, the sub region around Cambados, is the coldest and wettest of the five zones, and it is where Albarino was first planted. Rain comes off the Atlantic constantly, so vines are trained high on granite pergolas to keep fruit off the wet ground and let air move through the canopy. Soils are sandy granite over alluvial topsoil, which drains