Forjas del Salnes 2020 'Leirana' Albarino, Finca Genoveva, Rias Baixas DO

Forjas del Salnes 2020 'Leirana' Albarino, Finca Genoveva, Rias Baixas DO

Item Number: 12832

UPC: 8-437008409320

Country: Spain
Region: Galicia
Sub Region: Galicia
Appellation/AVA: Rias Baixas DO
Estate Grown Wine: Yes
Vineyard Designation: Finca Genoveva
Vintage: 2020
Grape(s): 100% Albariño
Type: Wine - White
Bottle Size: 750 ml
Pack: 6
Closure: Cork
Alc by Vol(%): 13
Soil Type: Pure granite with top layers of rocks and alluvial subsoil
Elevation: 80 meters

Vinification: Indigenous yeast fermentation. Aged for 12 months in 4-year-old large foudre of 2,500 liters. Bottled unfined and lightly filtered.

Terroir: Forjas del Salnés is a small winery in the Salnés subdistrict of Rías Baixas in Spain. This is from the Finca Genoveva vineyard, owned by a 90 year old lady called Lola. Rodrigo met her, won her heart, and saved this vineyard that was facing potential peril. This captivating site planted in 1862 “gives [Rodri] chickenpox every time he walks into it,” and is “the image of what Salnés looked like 100 years ago.” Truly the vineyard that changed everything for Rodri, the Albariño he produces here under the watchful eye of Doña Lola is fermented in chestnut vats built by her own parents.

Reviews

  • The Wine Advocate
    Rating: 97 (2/28/2022)
    The otherworldly 2020 Leirana Finca Genoveva is closed, ungiving and austere, precise, chiseled and sharp, with precision, energy, light and depth. It's an amazingly young Albariño that showcases they granite soils of Rías Baixas. It's still quite young and should prove with time, but like all the great wines in the world, it should be drinkable through its life. And it should be quite long lived. This comes from very old vines on pure granite soils. It has 12.5% alcohol, a pH of 3.05 and close to nine grams of acidity. The wine fermented and matured in well-seasoned, neutral 2,500-liter oak barrels with the lees for one year. 5,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in August 2021.