All of our wines are bought to you by engineless Cargo Ships therefore our transport is carbon negative, making our wines as good as local.
Grapes
Encruzado 30%, Cerceal Branco 20%, Malvasia Fina 20%, Bical 15%, Arinto 15%
Profile
Funky, slightly tannic. High acidity, refreshing, lots of apples and Asian pear on the nose too.
Viniculture
Soil is mainly granite bedrock with clay, limestone, and some schist. Soil allows longer growing cycle and a slow ripeness which aids in deeper more intense wine. Organically farmed grapes, with some biodynamic principles being implemented.
Wine Making
Spontaneous fermentation with ambient native yeasts in closed stainless steel tank for 10-12 days until dry. Temperature controlled with water from a natural sources on the vineyard. Naturally no malolactic fermentation because of high acid. 8 months on primary lees, racking once at 4 months. Unfiltered.
More about Joao
João will tell you all he needs to make wine is grapes, water to clean his equipment and a touch of sulfur at bottling. He rarely uses products in the vineyard, and when he does he only uses topical organic treatments. In today’s world, this is about as minimal as it gets. João isn’t following a natural wine trend. This is how he and his father have always done it. His wine is proof that a deliciously powerful wine can be naturally made, and this 2006 is a perfect example of the kind of wine João makes.