Paco & Lola Albarino 2023

About the Producer

Twenty years after its founding, Galician cooperative Paco & Lola has reached a milestone moment – winning the IWSC's 2025 White Wine Producer Trophy. After being shortlisted – already a remarkable achievement, as fewer than 3% of all IWSC entries are awarded a Gold medal – Paco & Lola have now received the IWSC 2025 White Wine Producer of the Year Trophy. For our judging panel, they emerged as "the obvious frontrunner" with a submission praised for "innovation, passion and detail." The IWSC White Wine Producer Trophy celebrates excellence across white wine portfolios, recognising producers who combine quality with innovation and sustainability. Paco & Lola presented seven wines to our IWSC judges – and every single one earned at least a bronze medal, with their Paco & Lola Prime 2021 securing gold. As IWSC judge Mick O'Connell MW noted of their Gold-medal Albariño: "clearly good… quite a perfect wine, as in it's exactly where everything should be." See the Pride Package! Paco & Lola – Rias Baixas, Spain Founded in 2005, Paco & Lola is the fruit of a business initiative of a group of independent winegrowers from O Salnes who wanted to take their production to the highest professional level. These growers formed a cooperative called “Sociedad Cooperativa Vitivinícola Arousana,” which has over 400 members, making it the largest cooperative in DO Rías Baixas. Paco & Lola has almost 500 acres of vineyards situated over more than 1800 plots of land. A distinctive product identity, a desire to think outside of the box and a quest for global brand recognition are the three pillars of Paco & Lola’s business philosophy. This drives absolutely everything the winery accomplishes. By being true to their philosophy Paco & Lola has become one of the most recognized wineries in DO Rías Baixas. Paco & Lola comes from sun-kissed vineyards in Meano (Pontevedra) where the Rosalia de Castro Winery is situated in an area considered to be the cradle of Albariño wine. In the heart of the Salnes Valley, this special area of northwest Spain is making some of the country's most interesting white wines. The Val do Salnes Subarea, is the largest growing area, covering more than the 50% of the surface and with more than the 70% of the growers.