Luis Pato Bairrada Vinho Tinto 2024 PURYEARSALE with hints of tropical fruit

with hints of tropical fruit

and Merlot from the organically farmed vineyards of Yecla

Filipa Pato grew up in the middle of it and has built her own reputation there

a 20-day maceration with gentle pumpovers

Luis Pato Bairrada Vinho Tinto 2024 PURYEARSALE with hints of tropical fruitBaga has a reputation as one of Portugal's most difficult grapes: thick skinned, high in acid, tannic enough to strip paint. Luis Pato has spent his career arguing that this is a farming problem, not a grape problem, and Bairrada is now unimaginable without him. This is his most easygoing statement of the case, a roughly even split of Baga and Touriga Nacional, fermented and raised in stainless steel with a deliberately gentle hand on the extraction.