Forjas del Salnes Albarino Leirana 2025 4JULY25SALE The Shinomine range of sake

The Shinomine range of sake from Chiyo is named after the Shinomine mountain range not far from the brewery

and this bottling comes from Chanson's near-monopole holding on the southern

Trained as both an oenologist and an agricultural engineer

The structure and subtle fine grain tannins of this wine result in a long

Forjas del Salnes Albarino Leirana 2025 4JULY25SALE The Shinomine range of sakeRias 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