Forjas del Salnes Albarino Leirana Finca Genoveva 2023 event-sold-out Fumey-Chatelain grows it on marl

Fumey-Chatelain grows it on marl soils and ages it a year and a half in barrel

Bottled at 98

This masterful expression has been matured in the rarest 30 year old Matusalem Oloroso Sherry casks

There's pear and white flower and a touch of honeyed weight

Felipe Ramirez started Dominio del Cuarzo in 2019 with a plot of roughly 130-year-old Pais bush vines -- less than a hectare of them -- in Nipas

Forjas del Salnes Albarino Leirana Finca Genoveva 2023 event-sold-out Fumey-Chatelain grows it on marlThese 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