Bodegas Forjas del Salnes Leirana Albarino 2022
Rias Baixas
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2022 Leirana Albarino 93WA
Bodegas Forjas del Salnes
Rias Baixas
Galicia, Spain
93pts Wine Advocate
The gentler 2022 Leirana reflects a warmer year of rounder wines and slightly lower acidity. They are increasing the amount of oak, and eventually, this could end up being 100% in (used and large) foudres, but the wines don't show any oak. They blended all the wines before they are put in foudre, and they feel it results in better integration of the wine. This represents the Salnés region of Rías Baixas with the salty and tasty marine and granite twist.
I tasted the 2021 and 2022 wines from Forjas del Salnés, and those are two different vintages. 2021 was a cooler year with lower alcohol, harvested from the second week of September. 2022 was a very warm year with a torrid summer. It was a drier year, but the wines were marked by the rains before the harvest; but they are quite complete and balanced, with a little less acidity but still fresh. 2021 was warmer than 2020 (a very sharp vintage, a very cold year), maybe in the style of 2019; and 2022 is warmer, like 2018, years of more powerful wines.
- 100% Albarino. Vines planted from 1952 - 1982. Tended in sandy and granite soil at 5 m (16 ft) elevation
- Naturally occurring fermentation with its own yeast. Aged in 80% stainless, 20% neutral foudre. No malolactic fermentation.
- Tiny 2,000 case production