While not a household name on the level of sauvignon blanc, albariño has been gaining in popularity.

As people who sell wine for a living, enjoy it at home and travel in search of great wine experiences, we’re confident in saying albariño has reached a prime moment. Sommeliers love it and consumers are asking for it regularly.

The James Beard Award-winning restaurant Miller Union in Atlanta is pouring albariño by the glass, as is Chuck’s Fish, a chain seafood restaurant near the University of Georgia campus in Athens. Every Atlanta bottle shop we surveyed carries at least three distinct albariño wines.

The surge in the popularity of sauvignon blanc wines from France this century has opened the door for more mineral-forward, acidic whites such as albariño.

The grape hails from the coa

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