Forjas del Salnes Albarino Leirana 2025 NO20231115 Fellom Ranch sits on the

Fellom Ranch sits on the Santa Clara Valley side of the Santa Cruz Mountains

Malolactic fermentation happens sometimes and there are no efforts to stop or encourage it

The wine is classically Burgundian — taut

Full-bodied

and a serious presence

Forjas del Salnes Albarino Leirana 2025 NO20231115 Fellom Ranch sits on theRias Baixas sits barely a few miles from the Atlantic, and you can taste it. Rodrigo Mendez farms granite rooted vines in Val do Salnes, the birthplace of Albarino, where more than five feet of rain a year and relentless sea wind make farming a fight and where the poor, sandy granite soils have kept old vines alive for over a century. Leirana is his everyday bottling and it is anything but ordinary: native yeast fermentation, mostly neutral foudre