Albarino Leirana Ma Luisa Lazaro, Forjas del Salnes 2013

Produced again for a second time after the initial 2005, I now tasted the 2013 Leirana M. Luisa Lazaro, a long-aging Albariño. Half of the volume aged in stainless steel and the other half in oak foudre for six months, then blended and put back in stainless until bottling. It was bottled in January 2017, three and a half years after the harvest, and might be kept in bottle and sold a little later. It's not really the same wine as the 2013, which was a high acidity vintage with a much longer élevage. This is gentler and more mineral, but the 2005 was sharper and that's why it was kept for such a long time. 2,500 bottles produced.