£16.95
This wine was rebranded back in 2022 when they moved from supplementing the grapes from other local growers to relying purely on their own estate grown grapes, ensuring quality control on the entire process. While I like their Alvarinho (Albarino), I actually preferred this their Loureiro, a grape not often seen as a varietal, but often used as a blend within Riais Baixs in Spain as well as here in Vinho Verde, Minho region on Northern Portugal.
The grapes for this wine are planted on unique transitional schist soils. These are a rarity in the Minho region (where cooler granite soils predominate) and allow the grapes to ripen more fully, evenly and earlier.
Bright yellow in colour, the wine offers inviting notes of tropical passion fruit and mango on the nose. The palate is well balanced with a fresh acidity, flavours of tropical fruit, grapefruit and lemon, with a creaminess resulting from the oak ageing. The finish is long, lingering and pleasant. 12% vol.
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