Quinta de Couselo Albarino Rias Baixas 2023

If you’ve never had one of José Manuel Martínez’s wines, you’re in for an absolute treat. There’s a reason he’s made the most Top 100 white wines in the last decade of any Spanish producer.

Jose’s estate, Couselo is located in the northern tip of Portugal in Rias Baixas. It’s a coastal wine, sourced from old and savvy Albariño vines. It’s a terrific wine that mixes wonderful stony minerality with a creamy, long finish that makes it both fantastic with anything from the sea but also just as good with a pre-meal apertif.

The newly released 2023 Albarino is 100% lights out good. You’re not going to find anything better than this in Rias Baixas. It’s so vibrant right from the start – just beaming with energy. What Couselo does best is mix in the minerality, and the saline with a creamy mid-palate – notes of lemon meringue, pineapple, mango, sweet jasmine and green melon with the Atlantic Ocean breeze helping to give this a beauty salty, tantalizing finish that leaves you begging for another sip.