Forjas del Salnes Albarino Leirana 2025 CRV5 The farming is organic-going-on-biodynamic

The farming is organic-going-on-biodynamic

and more pinot-like than anything you'd expect from the region

butterscotch and golden apple on the nose

An organic

Forjas del Salnes Albarino Leirana 2025 CRV5 The farming is organic-going-on-biodynamicRias Baixas sits barely a few miles from the Atlantic, and you can taste it. Rodrigo Mendez farms granite rooted vines in Val do Salnes, the birthplace of Albarino, where more than five feet of rain a year and relentless sea wind make farming a fight and where the poor, sandy granite soils have kept old vines alive for over a century. Leirana is his everyday bottling and it is anything but ordinary: native yeast fermentation, mostly neutral foudre