Vadio Tinto, Bairrada 2021

Red Wine from Portugal

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This is the flagship red for Vadio, fragrant with dark fruits, rose petal and an attractive forest floor character. The palate is fresh, lifted, with vibrant acidity and grippy tannins, blueberry fruits, violets and rose petals. It's an elegant, Barolo-esque red from a small family-owned estate in Bairrada, produced from the local baga grape that, like nebbiolo in Batolo country, has suffered an unfair reputation for many years a little too rustic and needing long ageing for the tannins to soften. But, just like nebbiolo, it all comes down to winemaking. Winemaker Luís Patrão is experienced, formerly of Herdade do Esporão and now at the outstanding Tapada de Coelheiros estate. Vinhos Vadio is his personal project in partnership with his wife Eduarda, in Luís' home-village. The coup’e have worked to achieve the potential of this exciting Portuguese red variety through improved vineyard practices and gentle winemaking and as a result has demonstrated that the variety can make serious, finessed and very fine red wines.

£16.00 Bottle

£192.00 Case of 12

In Stock

Code: PW11661

Wine characteristics

Red Wine
Medium-bodied
Baga
75cl
Now to 2032
12.5% Alcohol
oak used but not v. noticeable
Cork, natural
365 g (Empty bottle weight)

Vegetarian
Vegan

Vadio

For several years, having finished his work for the week at renowned Portuguese estate Herdade do Esporão in the Alentejo, winemaker Luís Patrão headed north and back home to the village of Poutena in Bairrada where he worked with his father Dinis on their tiny family vineyard. Today, along with some consultancy work, Luís works full time on his own wines and has been expanding his own and leased vineyard holdings, now over seven hectares, and range.

Working with several varieties, three of them very particular to his home region, Luís has established a reputation as one of Portugal’s best winemakers. He is a member of Baga Friends, for whom the indigenous red variety baga is king, and Luís works with some old vines planted on the best soils for the variety. For whites he can create wines from a palette of cercial and bical (both of them indigenous to Bairrada) together with encruzado, arinto and verdelho which Luís planted to complement the other varieties. He makes the wines in an old warehouse that has been converted into a simple winery. His wife Eduarda helps with tastings, sales and marketing, all while looking after their young son.