Forjas del Salnes Albarino Leirana 2025 QUANTITY CHECK After nearly six years in

After nearly six years in barrel and several more in bottle before release

hints of smoked orange & grapefruit

the legendary Bartolo Mascarello

Pelio - planted in 2003 at 1

consisting of a subtle combination of eleven plants and spices intensifying all the freshness of green anise from the Mediterranean

Forjas del Salnes Albarino Leirana 2025 QUANTITY CHECK After nearly six years inRias 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