Leirana Genoveva White wine

Leirana Finca Genoveva Albariño is one of the jewels of the small great project of Forjas do Salnés. Despite the fact that the commercial firm is relatively young, the vines are in some cases more than 100 years old, as it was the great-grandparents of the generation that works in the winery today who planted them at the beginning of the twentieth century. Since 2005 they have been working closely with the renowned winemaker Raúl Pérez, pampering the old vines of native varieties, including the Albariño from which this wine, more than 150 years old, is obtained.

The grapes from the trellised vines are traditionally harvested by hand and vinified with minimal intervention, fermenting under the command of wild yeasts. As a wine, it ages for 12 months in used oak foudres with its lees at rest. It is a wine as wide as it is long, with vibrant acidity and an intense mineral sensation. Pale in colour, it combines aromas of white fruit (quince) and peaches with those of citrus, flowers (chamomile), mint and white pepper; It is powerful and ripe, even tropical at times, but also fresh. Despite its ageing, the aromas of the wood are practically imperceptible, perhaps in some subtle brushstrokes of butter or toasted bread and in the silkiness of its touch; It is the granite soil and the nearby sea that truly let its character be felt in the wine, enveloping it in fine salinity and aromatic clarity. Its bitter finish rounds off a passage through the mouth that places, on its own merits, the Leirana Finca Genoveva Albariño among the best Albariños in Galicia. Not surprisingly, great critics such as Robert Parker have rated it above 95 points repeatedly.

Aroma: It opens with notes of ripe fruit (apricot, peach), citrus, flowers and aromatic plants.

Taste: On the palate it is tasty and fruity. It has very good acidity and balance.

Finish: Elegant, fresh and tasty.

Seafood, oily fish, oriental rice.