Forjas del Salnes Albarino Leirana Finca Genoveva 2023 event-sold-out Tintilla de Rota was nearly

Tintilla de Rota was nearly extinct

René Rostaing built his name on Côte-Rôtie

Bottled at 98

it offers delicate strawberry

making up 60% of the final ratio

Forjas del Salnes Albarino Leirana Finca Genoveva 2023 event-sold-out Tintilla de Rota was nearlyThese 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