Winemaker Notes
This is an easy drinking Baga wine with a fruity/spicy character, in fact it is a "throwback in time wine". As we have a lot of clay in the bottom of the valleys and in Roman times the wines where made in Clay pots, we wanted to reinstore this old tradition. The big advantage -for us- is that this way of vinification helped us a lot to understand better a lot of small vineyards as we can do a lot of mini vinifications (500 l clay pots). This way we can harvest every plot apart and vinify apart. After this you can really feel the difference in energy and character of each vineyard. Afterwards they blend together the wines they think are more suitable to form a nice and balanced Baga wine. The micro-oxigination helps a lot to put the fruity character of Baga up and helps to soften down the tannins.
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Best known for intense, impressive and age-worthy fortified wines, Portugal relies almost exclusively on its many indigenous grape varieties. Bordering Spain to its north and east, and the Atlantic Ocean on its west and south coasts, this is a land where tradition reigns supreme, due to its relative geographical and, for much of the 20th century, political isolation. A long and narrow but small country, Portugal claims considerable diversity in climate and wine styles, with milder weather in the north and significantly more rainfall near the coast.
While Port (named after its city of Oporto on the Atlantic Coast at the end of the Douro Valley), made Portugal famous, Portugal is also an excellent source of dry red and white Portuguese wines of various styles.
The Douro Valley produces full-bodied and concentrated dry red Portuguese wines made from the same set of grape varieties used for Port, which include Touriga Nacional, Tinta Roriz (Spain’s Tempranillo), Touriga Franca, Tinta Barroca and Tinto Cão, among a long list of others in minor proportions.
Other dry Portuguese wines include the tart, slightly effervescent Vinho Verde white wine, made in the north, and the bright, elegant reds and whites of the Dão as well as the bold, and fruit-driven reds and whites of the southern, Alentejo.
The nation’s other important fortified wine, Madeira, is produced on the eponymous island off the North African coast.
This dark-skinned, Portugese variety creates powerful red wines with great color, structure and finesse and is specially prominent in the Bairrada and Dão regions. Somm Secret—Because of its ample acidity and striking color, Baga also makes a great rosé; much of it from the Bairrada ends up in this style.