2024 Bodegas La Caña ‘Navia’ Albariño

WSI95 JD94 The 2024 La Cana Navia is from two vineyard sites in granite soils planted in the 1970s. It shines in refined texture and mouthfeel, with citrusy acidity throughout and pronounced salinity that adds length. Medium-bodied in intensity and volume, it’s essentially a barrel selection of the La Cana and should age even longer.

VIN94 The 2024 Albariño Navia is sourced from Finca Iglesario in Meaño and Finca Playa in Cambados, combining different soil types. Aged on lees for up to ten months, it was just bottled. This has light pastry notes, subtle barrel tones and white fruit with a faint reductive hint typical of its youth. Creamy and slightly unctuous in texture, this reveals a core of fruit but remains closed for now. It will gain complexity with time.

Bodegas La Caña was founded in 2008. La Caña Navia recovers the traditional methods of elaborating Albariño, before the incorporation of stainless steel tanks, when the wines were fermented and aged in large chestnut wood barrels on the lees. These were the wines that Jorge Ordóñez first discovered in Rias Baixas when he became the first person to export this variety.

Traditional dry farmed viticulture. Practicing organic pergola trained vines, cultivated completely by hand. Hand-harvested and stored in small baskets. The grapes are sorted at the winery and pressed after a 12-hour cold soak, which helps prevent oxidation of the must and allows us to reduce the amount of SO2 used in winemaking. Destemmed and whole cluster pressing in a pneumatic press. Fermented in 500L & 600L puncheons and demi-muids (new, second, third, and fourth use). Aged on the lees for twelve months with biweekly battonage.