Serradinha Vinho Tinto Castelao Alfrocheiro 2020

Serradinha Vinho Tinto Castelao Alfrocheiro 2020Press 4 Mix Red November 2023 Direct Press Selection Antnio Marques da Cruz began working with his father in the family vineyards around 2003 when fatefully a ladybug landed on a bottle his father was just about to open. His father was so taken with the moment he decided to commemorate it with a wooden ladybug glued to every cork. The Cruz family have maintained the estate since 1890 and Antonio is the first in his family to make wine his full time

It's clean

but this is a wine that will age beautifully for 5-10 years

sinewy structure

The average age of the vines and poor soils lend to a lower yield and higher concentration of character in the grapes

Reguengo operates as an organic vineyard and pretty swanky hotel

Trousseau Gris

I keep hearing the red

while proximity and soil provides salinity

and earnest

Oszkar Maurer’s family has been making wine for four generations in what was part of Hungary until 1920

30% Pinot Noir 70 year old vines

A little pine and foresty herbaceousness are mixed in with ripe cherries