Lúis Pato Vineyards Velhas Red

It's a significant increase in depth and power over its elegant sibling, the Vinha Barrosa. Intense, crisp, and quite impressive this year, it's enveloping on the finish, silky and striking. Its structure and acidity should give it a long life ahead, but it also has the depth to support those structural elements.

Winemaking:
Grown with Baga grapes planted in clay-limestone soils in vineyards with an average age of 40 years. At the end of August, a first harvest was carried out for the production of sparkling wine ('Espumante') from the same grapes, of about 2/3, to increase the concentration and anticipate the ripening of the grapes left in the vineyard for harvesting at the end of September to produce this Vinhas Velhas. Vinified in stainless steel vats for 10 days, it aged in used barrels (650l capacity) for 12 months.

Reviews and awards:
18 points Grandes Escolhas Wine;
16.5 points Wine Magazine.