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A serious Malbec for the price of a casual one

aged 80% in stoneware jars (an unusual choice that preserves pure fruit and mineral character)

The 2024 lands somewhere between Loire snap and California sunshine: bright grapefruit

with Chardonnay vines dating to the mid-1940s and a member of the Historic Vineyard Society

Forjas del Salnes Albarino Leirana Finca Genoveva 2023 NO20231108 snapped back into focus byThese 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