Forjas del Salnes Albarino Leirana Finca Genoveva 2023 040926OFFER Bottled at 108 proof

Bottled at 108 proof

planted to bush-trained vines averaging seventy years old

then dismissed as bulk juice and largely abandoned

This Zweigelt clocks in around 12

Kindly note

Forjas del Salnes Albarino Leirana Finca Genoveva 2023 040926OFFER Bottled at 108 proofThese 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