Wine & Soul Guru 2019

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Region

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Vintage
2019

Size
750ML

ABV
12.5%

Features
Boutique

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Winemaker Notes

Guru is produced from a 50-year-old field blend of the indigenous white varieties Vosinho, Rabigato, Codega do Larinho, and Gouveio. Fermented and aged in new French oak for seven months, this wine features great complexity, minerality, and freshness. An elegant wine exhibiting grapefruit and mineral aromas and flavors warmed by oak contact. Refreshing, with a fine balance and long finish.

Blend: 25% Viosinho, 25% Rabigato, 25% Codega do Larinho, 25% Gouveio

Professional Ratings

  • 96
    Pale with green glints and signature struck match, spicy coriander seed, curry powder and flint to nose and palate. Rapier-like acidity informs the precise delivery. Racy lime mingles with notes of lime blossom and zest, quinine, crushed oyster shell, talc and green tea. Exceptionally mineral. A consistently outstanding, terroir-driven Douro white from several old field blend parcels.
  • 95
    The 2019 Guru is a field blend from old vines (60 years), mostly Viosinho, Rabigato, Códega do Larinho and Gouveio, aged for seven months in 90% used French oak. It comes in at just 12.2% alcohol. It seems bigger in every way. In structure and a concentrated mouthfeel, this is exceptional. It grips the palate on the finish and doesn't let go. It has laser-like focus. There is some wood in the background, but as always, this handles the wood very well. This seems like an exceptional vintage for this, and it's designed to age well.
  • 91
    A vibrant acidity cuts through lemon, white peach and apple flavors in this elegant white flanked with herb, wet stone, white tea and a hint of toast. Very focused and full of energy. Rabigato, Viosinho, Gouveio and Côdega do Larinho. Drink now through 2026.
  • 91
    From a north-facing vineyard planted in 1960 to a field blend of local varieties, this wine needs a day or two of air to begin to show its sophisticated best: Earthy funk gives way to scents of crab broth and a flinty tension. Decant this for a seafood stew.
  • 90
    From old white vines and aged in wood, this is a dense wine, with strong minerality from the schist soil and a tight texture. The wine needs to age with its rich kiwi fruitiness and tense acidity.

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Wine & Soul

Wine & Soul

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Wine & Soul, Portugal
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Located in the heart of the Douro Valley, Portugal’s best-known wine region, Wine & Soul spans several picturesque vineyards. This innovative yet rustic winery was founded nearly 10 years ago by Jorge Serôdio Borges and his wife Sandra Tavares da Silva, both of whom wished to channel their extensive experience into a winery that would showcase the traditional varieties and terroir of the Douro Valley on an international level. Initially, Wine & Soul consisted of a lone vineyard, Pintas, located in the Cima Corgo's prized Pinhão Valley. Throughout the years, it expanded to include additional properties, such as the magnificent Quinta da Manoella. Parcels of 80-year-old vines are tucked into terraces carved out by dynamite a century ago. Walls built from the displaced schist border the vines, preventing erosion and enhancing the idyllic landscape. Wine & Soul has received considerable critical praise for its character-driven wines, all of which represent the exceptional terroir of the Douro region. Natural farming is prioritized, and no chemical fertilizers, pesticides, or herbicides are used. Irrigation is minimal and performed only by hand, and indigenous yeasts are used for almost all fermentation. Organic certification by Sativa is pending. Due to the steep grade of the slopes and the narrow width of the terraces, all grapes must be picked by hand. The fruit is foot-trodden in granite lagares, which yields fine, silky tannins since the process is so gentle on the grapes. The wines are all aged in French barriques.

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With hundreds of white grape varieties to choose from, winemakers have the freedom to create a virtually endless assortment of blended white wines. In many European regions, strict laws are in place determining the set of varieties that may be used in white wine blends, but in the New World, experimentation is permitted and encouraged. Blending can be utilized to enhance balance or create complexity, lending different layers of flavors and aromas. For example, a variety that creates a soft and full-bodied white wine blend, like Chardonnay, would do well combined with one that is more fragrant and naturally high in acidity. Sometimes small amounts of a particular variety are added to boost color or aromatics. Blending can take place before or after fermentation, with the latter, more popular option giving more control to the winemaker over the final qualities of the wine.

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The home of Port—perhaps the most internationally acclaimed beverage—the Douro region of Portugal is one of the world’s oldest delimited wine regions, established in 1756. The vineyards of the Douro, set on the slopes surrounding the Douro River (known as the Duero in Spain), are incredibly steep, necessitating the use of terracing and thus, manual vineyard management as well as harvesting. The Douro's best sites, rare outcroppings of Cambrian schist, are reserved for vineyards that yield high quality Port.

While more than 100 indigenous varieties are approved for wine production in the Douro, there are five primary grapes that make up most Port and the region's excellent, though less known, red table wines. Touriga Nacional is the finest of these, prized for its deep color, tannins and floral aromatics. Tinta Roriz (Spain's Tempranillo) adds bright acidity and red fruit flavors. Touriga Franca shows great persistence of fruit and Tinta Barroca helps round out the blend with its supple texture. Tinta Cão, a fine but low-yielding variety, is now rarely planted but still highly valued for its ability to produce excellent, complex wines.

White wines, generally crisp, mineral-driven blends of Arinto, Viosinho, Gouveio, Malvasia Fina and an assortment of other rare but local varieties, are produced in small quantities but worth noting.

With hot summers and cool, wet winters, the Duoro has a maritime climate.

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