Forjas del Salnes Albarino Leirana Finca Genoveva 2023 042726OFFER each bottle selected to showcase

each bottle selected to showcase the breadth and quality that define modern Champagne

keeps that old-school spirit alive in bottles you can actually open on a Tuesday

slightly lactic

for this address and this vintage

where Chardonnay ripens later and keeps its nerve

Forjas del Salnes Albarino Leirana Finca Genoveva 2023 042726OFFER each bottle selected to showcaseThese 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