Albariño - The Romans are to blame

[Marcus-UK]

There was an article in the Guardian concerning the origin of the Albariño grape variety. It would appear that it is native ("peculiar" using older English) to Gallicia and probably drives from a cultivation of a wild woodland vine variety.
The proof is down to comparing the remains found in Roman sites to the modern grape and finding they are similar. There are no similar varieties found any where else in Europe. The vine has been exported elsewhere in the world.
The scientists would like to find proof by finding the native wild woodland vine, but are unlikely to do this since most native woodlands have been replaced by Eucalypti species.

Scientists crack mystery of how Spain's prized albariño wine came to be

Study suggests grape was not brought from elsewhere, but cultivated from wild strain and has been in the region since Roman times

www.theguardian.com

 

[Levi]

My favourite wine!

 

[Anhalter]

At least in Germany you can get Albarino at decent prices from LIDLs online store. Might be possible aswell in other countries, not sure though.

But i have to admit: Having a bottle at Mar de Fora, watching the sunset, is a completely different experience to having one back home.

 

[jsalt]

My favourite wine!

Mine too!

 

[Levi]

For peregrinos in New Zealand: in one of the UK Sunday papers I read that the Esk Valley Estate in Hawkes Bay is producing an albariño - "a grape more associated with the rainswept Galician region of northwest Spain".

 

[Guy Strachan]

There was an article in the Guardian concerning the origin of the Albariño grape variety. It would appear that it is native ("peculiar" using older English) to Gallicia and probably drives from a cultivation of a wild woodland vine variety.
The proof is down to comparing the remains found in Roman sites to the modern grape and finding they are similar. There are no similar varieties found any where else in Europe. The vine has been exported elsewhere in the world.
The scientists would like to find proof by finding the native wild woodland vine, but are unlikely to do this since most native woodlands have been replaced by Eucalypti species.

Scientists crack mystery of how Spain's prized albariño wine came to be

Study suggests grape was not brought from elsewhere, but cultivated from wild strain and has been in the region since Roman times

www.theguardian.com

I'll need to drink even more of it now I know it's even more especial!

 

[JabbaPapa]

It's one of the few remaining examples of the original European vines, not devastated by the phylloxera.