Leirana Albariño

The vibrant 2020 Leirana was produced with a blend of 60% wine matured in used oak foudre and the rest stainless steel, as the wine has very high acidity (9 to 9.5 grams with a pH of 2.99!) and doesn't go through malolactic; so, it is very sharp, and the higher percentage of oak makes it a little rounder. It's powerful and pungent, serious and with granite minerality, showcasing the serious style of the whites from 2020. It has moderate alcohol (12.9%) and an electric palate that is clean and tasty, with a stony finish. 30,000 bottles produced. There are two lots that are not identifiable, the first of which was filled in March 2021, the second one in July.

I've seen some of these vines and in winter the spray of the sea lashes their trunks. It's a wine that tastes of the sea. Salt-etched Meyer lemons, citrus fragrance precision-carved into stone, bone dry yet tasting of marmalade. It's a wine that drives so hard and so fiercely that it's knuckle white with tension and yet... underneath, so quiet that you have to stop and listen for it, there is a soft heart, a meltingness of apricot.