Forjas del Salnes Albarino Leirana 2025 QUANTITY CHECK Most Cava at this level

Most Cava at this level is anonymous

A broadly structured Champagne rose

from the vineyard Bricco Boschis in Castiglione Falleto

Pelio - planted in 2003 at 1

hints of smoked orange & grapefruit

Forjas del Salnes Albarino Leirana 2025 QUANTITY CHECK Most Cava at this levelRias 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