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Antonio Madeira, Branco Dao, 2022

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António Madeira fled Portugal as a child but returned to reclaim family vineyards in the Dão, bringing French education and Portuguese roots to bear. His Branco is a precise, site-driven white assembled from roughly 20 native varieties—Bical, Fernão Pires, Arinto, Cerceal—grown on granite soils in the foothills of Serra da Estrela. After malolactic fermentation and aging in stainless steel, the 2022 vintage displays ripe apricot, peach, and citrus interwoven with delicate florals and pronounced minerality that echoes wet granite. The texture is elegant yet full-bodied, with a saline quality that marks wines from serious Portuguese terroir.

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What importer Polaner Selections has to say about this wine...

Varietals
White Blend
Biodynamic
Practicing
Vineyard
All the grapes come from small local farmers in the Serra da Estrela that work without the use of herbicides. The vineyards range from very old to some young vines
Orientation
Serra da Estrela
Soil
Granite
Viticulture
purchased fruit from small local farmers working without herbicides. Antonio's team does the harvest so that a first sort is done in the vineyard and so that small boxes of 15 kg are used.
Vinification
The grapes are harvested in the early AM to be cool. They are destemmed and pressed The skins and juice macerate in the press with CO2 blocking the empty space for about 3-4 hours to extract Nitrogen in the must which is important for yeast health in fermentation. The juice is then racked to a stainless steel tank to decant for 24 hours and clarify. It is then racked off the deposit into a combination of wood and stainless steel to ferment. Most is in steel around 70%.
Aging
13 months of aging. The barrels used here are sometimes his original 225L used barrels. He is slowly replacing everything with larger wood but still has some small barrels left. The wine finishes Malo.

Details

  • Grape Variety

    White Blend

  • Vintage

    2022

  • Size

    750ml

  • Sweetness

    Dry

  • Body

    Medium Bodied