The Rías Baixas appellation is a small wine-growing area in north-west Spain, in the region of Galicia. DO Rías Baixas is renowned for the Albariño grape that produces some of the world’s foremost white wines. Albariño shares the same mineral-rich soils and cool climate as the world’s other renowned white wine-producing regions, including France’s Loire Valley, New Zealand, and the Rhine region of Germany.

One of the key success factors has been the commitment growing the region’s indigenous grape varieties, in particular Albariño, which cope so well with the challenging local climate and impart genuine quality and a sense of place to wines that have a distinctly Atlantic character.