Soalheiro 'Ag.hora' Loureiro

Pale, pretty and precise with a delicate hint of green to the pithy grapefruit. Whilst the aromatic and flavour spectrum is subtle, this wine has lovely luminosity and life. It’s a singular take on a variety that can be all lift and lack depth. Just 750 bottles produced. 11.5% Drink 2022-2025+

100% Loureiro

From a single 45-year-old vineyard located between Ponte de Lima (Loureiro’s heartland) and Valenca. The grapes fermented then macerated on 40% skins, together with 10% stems for two months in an unlined terracotta amphora from Italy. (For Chezia, skin contact decreases Loureiro’s aroma, giving a totally different expression, whilst the amphora decreases its high acidity). After pressing, the wine spent seven months ageing in amphora. It was bottled at the end of August 2021 with minimal filtration and sulphur addition. The goal is “to make an elegant expression of skin contact and keep the profile of the fruit, not hide terroir by a lot of extraction and oxidation (as many orange wines done this way),” said Chezia.

Serve cold at a temperature of 7-9ºC. Drink 2022-2025+