The most premium wine from Fillaboa Wineries, La Fillaboa 1898, has been awarded 98 points for its 2016 vintage in the Guía Peñín 2024. This is the highest score ever achieved by this wine, which in its previous 2010 vintage—its first release—received 97 points and the Best in Show award at Decanter.
La Fillaboa 1898 has been one of only five white wines to receive 98 points or more in this guide, which evaluated a total of 9,800 wines and includes only 12 wines scoring higher.
La Fillaboa 1898 is an exclusive wine from the 2016 vintage. It comes from the finest grapes of eight plots and has undergone six years of aging on fine lees, which gives this Albariño exceptional volume and roundness on the palate—qualities rarely found in this type of wine. In addition, it preserves the freshness of young Albariños while enhancing the complexity and elegance of great white wines. This wine recalls the 19th century, when a wine called “Vino del Condado de Fillaboa” was already being 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 journeys, Fillaboa Wineries decided in 2017 to release this wine, which had been aging on its lees since 2010. Since that year, Fillaboa has released and bottled 3,500 bottles annually.
Isabel Salgado, winemaker at Bodegas Fillaboa for over twenty years, states: “This wine represents our commitment to innovation, our deep understanding of the Albariño grape, and the research we conduct on our grapes and vineyards. It is an original wine that elevates Albariño white wine to the highest level of quality and longevity.”
All the wines from this winery have received scores equal to or higher than 90 points in this Guide, as have the following wines from other wineries belonging to the Masaveu Wineries group: Veguín de Murua Gran Reserva 2014, Murua Blanco Fermentado en Barrica 2021, and VS Murua 2020 from Murua Wineries, as well as Leda Viñas Viejas 2019 and Más de Leda 2019 from Leda Wineries.
Fillaboa Wineries
Fillaboa is a historic manor whose estate has remained undivided over the centuries, being one of the largest, most beautiful, and oldest estates in Galicia, and the only one that, due to its special characteristics, belongs to Grandes Pagos de España. Behind the 1,600 meters of the thick stone wall that protects the property, in addition to the vineyards, lie the winery and a spectacular reconstructed stately manor.
Fifty hectares of Albariño grape vineyards planted on rolling hills make up the Fillaboa estate, which covers a total of 74 hectares spread across 12 plots on the natural border with Portugal, next to the Tea and Miño rivers. The granitic soils and Atlantic climate, with mild temperatures due to the proximity of the sea, make Fillaboa a privileged place for cultivating the native Albariño grape.
Masaveu Wineries
The Masaveu family began investing in the wine sector in 1974, when they acquired Bodegas Murua, but the family’s vineyard plantings date back to the mid-19th century, specifically in Castellar del Vallés, the family’s place of origin, where Federico Masaveu Rivell laid the foundations that his descendants would continue a century later.
Since then, Masaveu Wineries has grown to become a benchmark in the sector, recognized for the quality of its wines across different DOs and for its environmental philosophy and utmost respect for the land, where it owns its own vineyards. Thanks to this, the winery conveys the unique personality of each terroir in every bottle. In this way, all the projects undertaken by Masaveu Wineries across different regions of the country share a common denominator:
