A stellar albariño with a wonderful price tag

2017 Bodegas del Palacio de Fefianes, albario Ras Baixas, Spain(£16 from TheWineSociety.com, 01438-741177.)

Bearing in mind the sheer excellence of this wine, the bottle wears a wonderfully affordable price tag. The 2017 arrived in the UK a few weeks ago and it is the finest wine from this vintage and grape variety that I have tasted this season.

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Dating back to 1904, the Fefianes estate was the very first to bottle this wistful, aromatic and yet racy grape. It was also the first to note the now famous Ras Baixas region on its labels, too. Drawing grapes from vines across 66 local estates and using some plots as old as 100 years, this is a thoroughly noble wine.

There cannot be many wines as serious as this that are drunk within a year of the grapes hanging on a vine!

Serve it with seafood

The wine represents the true essence of summer in Spain. It is drunk with the finest seafood and crustacea by the great and the good, and you simply must order this wine in for your summer parties. It is a genuine slice of history in a bottle.

Matthew Jukes is a winner of the International Wine & Spirit Competition's Communicator of the Year (MatthewJukes.com).

Matthew Jukes has been the MoneyWeek wine correspondent since 2006.

He has worked in the UK wine business for well over three decades and during this time has written 14 wine books. His four highly-acclaimed, annual wine reports – the Burgundy En Primeur Report, the Bordeaux En Primeur Report, the Piemonte Report and the 100 Best Australian Wines – are published on his website.

Matthew is a winner of the International Wine and Spirit Competition's Communicator of the Year Trophy. His thoughts, recommendations and tastings notes are followed very closely by the wine world at large.