Green Spain, so called because like Manchester it rains every day. When you occupy the north-west corner of Spain with one coast on the Atlantic and the other on the bay of Biscay, what do you expect? Albarino is top grape here with some old fashioned training systems to keep it off the floor and less damp. Albarino was thought to be Riesling, or a clone of it for a long time – the story was that German monks brought it, but sadly this story doesn`t correlate with the genetics. (CW 23/01/12)