Forjas del Salnes Albarino Leirana 2025 CRV5 and the family's Volnay holdings

and the family's Volnay holdings are among the village's finest

and it gives Romain Guiberteau's most structured

The farming is organic-going-on-biodynamic

butterscotch and golden apple on the nose

Forjas del Salnes Albarino Leirana 2025 CRV5 and the family's Volnay holdingsRias 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