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Luis Seabra, Granito Cru Branco Dao, 2022

White Wine from Porto & Douro, Portugal
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A traditional Dao field blend of 60% Encruzado, 30% Bical, 10% Sercial. Sustainably grown vines planted around 1987 tended in granitic soils with quartz. Dão is a new and exciting region for Luis. The rolling hills in the center of the country tend to produce some of the most balanced, mineral-driven wines available. Encruzado is queen here, and gives something along the lines of Chenin with high acid and waxy notes, and plenty of concentration.

"This shows subtle aromas of white flowers and sliced apricots. Elegant and medium- to full-bodied with racy acidity and an austere profile. Encruzado, bical and sercial fermented and aged in 500-liter barriques. It undergoes malolactic fermentation. This needs another year in bottle to open up properly." Jacobo Garcia-Andrade Llamas, Senior Editor James Suckling

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Luis Seabra loves, loves, loves, loves, wine. It’s a passion, bordering on obsession, but one that has turned him into Portugal’s greatest innovator and winemaker. His wines defy expectations, tasting nothing like the rich, extracted wines of his Douro neighbors, and yet clearly expressions of that place. You stop to wonder what everyone else might be doing wrong.

Maybe there’s nothing wrong with what his neighbors have been doing. But he’s doing something no one else has tried. The Douro is Europe's oldest demarcated wine region and has been world famous for their Port wines virtually that whole time. But Port wine, perfected over decades and centuries, isn’t like dry wines. For instance, unlike the other ancient and famous regions (Tokaj, Burgundy, Mosel, Piedmont, etc.) no one has ever made a single soil map of the place.

So when the market for sweet Port wines started to dry up, and the locals started to make dry wines they didn’t have the frames of reference most dry wine makers have. So they made dry versions of Port. These are wines that have a place. They can be delicious. But they are not transparent to the soil in the way that most great dry wines are.

Luis Seabra has changed that. After 10 years of working under Dirk Nierpoort, an innovator in his own right, Luis wanted to have full control over his vision. He struck out on his own, utilized his connections with small growers and got to work.

He’s identified soil types in every parcel of every vineyard he works with. Colloquially the region is dominated by schist, but in actuality it's not schist but a menagerie of different slates with granite thrown in for good measure. Any German Riesling drinker will tell you the differences in slate soils can be stark, the same is true here. Even with tens of different grape varieties often planted to a single vineyard, when farmed and vinified for quality dry wine the variations are startling.

All of his wines share a vivaciousness, they are lithe, crisp and energetic. But each cuveé is singular in its expression and offers the adventurous wine drinker an opportunity to explore a side of this region previously unknown.

Details

  • Grape Variety

    Bical , Encruzado , Sercial

  • Vintage

    2022

  • Size

    750ml

  • Farming Practice

    Sustainable

  • Sweetness

    Dry

  • Body

    Light Bodied

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