ABV 5.5% Available Year Round After a few years of home brewing in our garage, my brother and I decided we should open a brewery so that we could share our beer. In 2009 we started with a one barrel system and worked on a single recipe, over and over,...
The 2017 Tinto, in bottle about four months when first seen, is a blend of Tinta Roriz (30%), Touriga Franca (25%), Touriga Nacional (35%) and Tinta Barroca (10%). About 15% (a deliberate increase from what used to be a nominal 5%) of the blend was aged i...
The 2017 Tinto Terrenus is a field blend (mostly roughly equal components of Aragonez, Trincadeira, Alicante Bouschet and Grand Noir) aged for 16 months in used French oak. It comes in at 14.9% alcohol. Textured with bits of silk and velvet, this understa...
From the Monção e Melgaço sub-region of northern Portugal, the natural home of the alvarinho grape, and made by one of its finest producers, who uses a little skin contact (hence the name) to give structure to this invigorating linear dinner-table white.