Description / Reviews
"Over the last seven or eight years, Forjas del Salnés has graduated from being one of the young upstarts of Spanish wine to one of its most lauded benchmarks. In a way that echoes much of the best of Spanish wine, the key to Forjas’ process is a return to the origins of the region; before the ascendancy of stainless steel, acid adjustments, and cultured yeasts.
Taking a 200 year old vineyard called Finca Genoveva and the ancient winery built underneath as his blueprint. Rodri sticks to careful organic viticulture, separating old parcels always in the traditional pergola trellising system. The winery is similarly ancestral in production; indigenous yeasts, long ageing, often on lees for extended periods, judicious use of oxidative-aging vessels in the cellar.
Centennial vines planted in small hollow on the headland between Sanxenxo and Cambados. Soils here are sand of gneiss origin with huge lumps of quartz. Only 2-3 barrels are produced annually." - Cortez Trading, Importer
"The 2022 Albariño Leirana O Pradiño, from Salnés, Rías Baixas, is planted on gneiss soils with ample sun exposure. Golden in color, it reveals resin and ripe stone fruit aromas. Compact on the palate, it shows intense freshness, a creamy mid-palate and a lingering saline finish. Refined and distinctive." - 93 Points, Joaquín Hidalgo, Vinous
