The Spanish Association of Wine Journalists and Writers (AEPEV) presented the Best Wines of Spain 2020 Awards today in Almería, during its 12th edition, where La Fillaboa 1898 2010, produced by the Rías Baixas winery Fillaboa, was honored as the Best Unoaked White Wine.
The event, held at Casa Rafael Restaurant in Almería and sponsored by the Regional Government of Andalusia, was attended by Teresa Muñoz, Communications Director at Masaveu Bodegas, the wine group to which Bodega Fillaboa belongs. She accepted the award on behalf of the winery.According to Muñoz, “This celebration comes at the perfect time and place of the year to truly enjoy the freshness and magic of one of Spain’s—and Galicia’s—great Albariños, Fillaboa. This award will further strengthen the prestige of this brand and secure its place where it truly belongs.”
La Fillaboa 1898
This wine recalls the 19th century, when a wine called “Vino del Condado de Fillaboa” was shipped by boat from this estate located in the Condado de Tea area of Rías Baixas, near Portugal, to Cuba.
In honor of those historic voyages, Fillaboa Winery launched the first release of this wine (vintage 2010) in 2017, and has since made four subsequent releases (the most recent in 2020), bottling approximately 3,500 bottles per year.
La Fillaboa 1898 2010 comes from the best grapes of eight selected plots and has undergone six to nine years of aging on fine lees, which imparts a unique volume and roundness on the palate, a characteristic rarely found in Albariños. In addition, it retains the freshness of younger Albariños while enhancing the complexity and elegance of the finest white wines.The next vintage of La Fillaboa 1898 will be the 2016, which has been rated as excellent by the Rías Baixas Regulatory Council. This vintage will be released next year after a minimum of six years of aging on lees in stainless steel tanks.
Permanent recognition
La Fillaboa 1898 2010 is one of the most recognized and highest-rated white wines in recent years. So far this year, it has received 96 points from the 2021 Peñín Guide and the 2021 Gourmets Guide, and 93 points from James Suckling.
The year 2020 was undoubtedly a milestone in terms of its national and international recognition: 91 points from Parker, 93 from Verema, 95 from the Gourmets Guide, and 97 from the Peñín Guide, as well as the Grand Diamond Medal at the 2020 International Wine and Women Competition and the Grand Gold Albariño at the Albariños al Mundo awards organized by the Spanish Union of Tasters.
These are joined by other recognitions in 2019, such as the Grand Gold award in the “Guide to Wines, Spirits, and Wineries of Galicia 2019” and, above all, the ‘Best in Show’ at the prestigious American Decanter Awards 2019.
Fillaboa Wineries
Fillaboa is a historic estate that has remained undivided over the centuries, making it one of the largest, most beautiful, and oldest in Galicia, and the only one that, due to its unique characteristics, belongs to Grandes Pagos de España. Behind the 1,600 meters of the thick stone wall that protects the estate lie, in addition to the vineyards, the winery and a spectacular restored manor house.
