Folias de Baco "Uivo Curtido" 2024

Folias de Baco "Uivo Curtido" 2024Tiago Sampaio has been making waves in the Douro since 2007, breathing new life into Portuguese wine scene. Up until tasting the Folias de Baco wines, I had associated the Douro with big, extracted reds and rich, low acid whites. Tiago's wines opened my mind to the fact that there is potential for high toned, refreshing wines, you just have to grow the grapes in the right place. With vines in the Alto Douro, planted at elevations exceeding 700 meters

and a silky textural component that Jonathan described as “guanciale fat

The juice was blended the days after the pressing

her sommelier training and WSET classes left her feeling cold

but are also some the best values in California natural wine

an old drought-resistant Catalan variety that is nearly extinct after being ripped out en-masse in the 1980s for not being as high yielding as other cultivars

puffed barley

Today Quinta do Ermízio is owned and run by Antonio A

The blend of Viognier

The grapes are gently pressed directly into fiberglass lined vats where the juice ferments and ages on its lees

energetic nose with aromas of blackberries

" Jonathan Kemp

We released a small 600 liter cuvée of very dense Chardonnay from 2016