I emailed an acquaintance who is bringing a new Riesling to market soon and I asked him his opinion of Albarino wines since they were described to me as "Riesling clones". I thought I'd share a bit of what I wrote to him about a Rias Baixas we recently tasted (y'know, so I can, like, officially have tasting notes on here ... use at your own risk). Now - I realize that Rias Baixas is the region, but I unfortunately disposed of the bottle and cannot recall the name of the vineyard. Sorry! I'll update if it turns out my wife rescued the bottle by chance.
When I was growing up my family had a psychotic dog. Once, the dog (his name was Chumley - strikes fear in the heart, no?) and I were playing with his rawhide chew toy - he would bring it to me, we'd play tug-of-war with it, I'd win, throw it across the room, and he'd come trotting back with it for more. On about the dozenth or so go at it, Chumley dropped the toy at my feet where I sat on the floor, wagging his tail and with a big ol' doggy smile on his face. I picked up the rawhide for one more round of tug-of-war and Chumley, logically, lunged at my face and took a bite out of my chin. It wasn't bad, just a tiny gash, but I was more distraught by how he had turned on a dime like that.
