Forjas del Salnes Albarino Leirana Finca Genoveva 2023 NO20231108 The 2024 lands somewhere between

The 2024 lands somewhere between Loire snap and California sunshine: bright grapefruit

aged 80% in stoneware jars (an unusual choice that preserves pure fruit and mineral character)

and pineapple

The 2005 is now twenty years old

Forjas del Salnes Albarino Leirana Finca Genoveva 2023 NO20231108 The 2024 lands somewhere betweenThese vines were planted before the American Civil War. Finca Genoveva is a single parcel of roughly 180 year old Albarino rooted in pure granite soil so poor that phylloxera never managed to get a foothold. Rodrigo Mendez ferments and ages the wine for a full year in large, well seasoned neutral foudres with the lees left untouched, which builds texture without ever burying the fruit in oak. It is famously closed and austere when young, so give it a