Forjas del Salnes Albarino Leirana 2025 QUANTITY CHECK based on Grenache and Cinsault

based on Grenache and Cinsault with a little Carignan

A vermouth that respects tradition while refusing to play by the rules

unfiltered Cabernet Franc in the Loire Valley's Touraine

Most Cava at this level is anonymous

Pelio - planted in 2003 at 1

Forjas del Salnes Albarino Leirana 2025 QUANTITY CHECK based on Grenache and CinsaultRias 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