Rodrigo Méndez

Description Rodrigo Méndez

Rodrigo Méndez, often called Rodri, is the winemaker behind Forjas del Salnés in Rías Baixas. Alongside this estate, he also produces a small range of wines under his own name. These are white wines made from old Albariño vines, sourced from different plots and soil types. Production is always very limited.

Regions of Rodrigo Méndez

Galicia

Appellations of Rodrigo Méndez

D.O. Rias Baixas

Winemaker Rodrigo Méndez

Owner Rodrigo Méndez

History Rodrigo Méndez

Alongside Forjas del Salnés, Rodri Méndez developed a smaller and more personal project under his own name. The wines are made by the same team and in the same winery as the wines of Forjas del Salnés, but they are marketed separately. Within this project, he works with old vineyards and different terroirs in Rías Baixas.

Rodrigo Méndez
Aldea Seixiños, 72
36967 Meaño,
Pontevedra

Varieties Rodrigo Méndez

Rodri mainly works with Albariño from old vineyards in Rías Baixas. The different plots and soil types give each wine its own character.

Terroir Rodrigo Méndez

Cíes comes from approximately 70-year-old Albariño vines planted on granite and sandy soils in Meaño.

Sálvora comes from 105-year-old vines trained in the traditional pergola system. The grapes come from three small plots: one on granite, one on sandy soil and one on limestone-rich soil.

A Cruceira is a single-vineyard wine from vines more than 90 years old, planted on gneiss soils in Xesteiriña, near Sanxenxo.

Vinification Rodrigo Méndez

The vinification varies depending on the wine.

Cíes Blanco 2024 is aged for eight months, half in stainless-steel tanks and half in neutral wooden vats. The wine does not undergo malolactic fermentation.

Sálvora is harvested by hand and fermented with indigenous yeasts in old 600-litre wooden barrels. It does not undergo malolactic fermentation either.

A Cruceira ferments in old 225-litre oak barrels and is then aged in barrel for a further twelve months.

75 cl.

96 R. Parker

Biological

A Cruceira 2023

Galicia

Rodrigo Méndez

D.O. Rias Baixas

75 cl.

white

69,39 € /pc

57,35 € excl. VAT

Assembly

Albariño (100%)

Content

75 cl.

Year

2023

Description

Single-vineyard Albariño from 90-year-old vines in Xesteiriña (Sanxenxo). Gneiss soils bring freshness and additional volume to the wine. Only 1,000 bottles produced. The label mentions Iraia & Edu from the Lagüiña lieu-dit.

75 cl.

Biological

As Covas 2022

Galicia

Rodrigo Méndez

D.O. Rias Baixas

75 cl.

red

47,48 € /pc

39,24 € excl. VAT

Assembly

Pinot Noir (100%)

Content

75 cl.

Year

2022

Description

As Covas is one of the two parcels planted by Rodri and Raul Pérez in Pontevedra (only 1.200 plants per hectare). Th e Pinot Noir vines are some 10 years old, the production of this cuvée is only 800 bottles.

75 cl.

Biological

Cíes Blanco 2025

Galicia

Rodrigo Méndez

D.O. Rias Baixas

75 cl.

white

21,34 € /pc

17,64 € excl. VAT

Assembly

Albariño (100%)

Content

75 cl.

Year

2025

Description

A small side project by Rodrigo Méndez of Forjas del Salnés. It concerns a vineyard of old Albariño vines of around 70 years old on granite and sandy soils, located in the village of Meaño.