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Vadio Tinto, Bairrada 2022

Red Wine from Portugal - Bairrada
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The flagship red from this fantastic family-owned Portuguese producer is a must-try for Barolo lovers. Fragrant with dark fruits, rose petal and attractive forest floor, while the fresh palate conveys its blueberry, violet and rose-petal notes with vibrant acidity and grippy tannins. What is interesting about Vadio is that they were expecting organic farming to be a challenge. In the end, Baga, the local variety they specialise in, proved surprisingly well suited to it. Today, their vineyards are farmed without synthetic chemicals and managed with a practical, low-intervention approach. Cover crops help build organic matter in the clay-rich soils, while areas of woodland and local streams are protected to encourage birds and bats that help keep vineyard pests in balance. They also produce much of their own compost using winery by-products and local organic materials. What we like about Vadio is that nothing feels dogmatic. Every decision is grounded in the realities of growing better grapes and caring for the landscape they farm, with the wine benefiting as a result.
Price: £17.00 Bottle (£22.67/litre)
Price: £204.00 Case of 12 (£22.67/litre)
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Code: PW12861

Wine characteristics

  • Red Wine
  • Medium-bodied
  • Baga
  • 75cl
  • Now to 2033
  • 12.5% Alcohol
  • oak used but not v. noticeable
  • Cork, natural
  • 390 g (Empty bottle weight)
  • Vegetarian
  • Vegan

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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.

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