Murgas Bucelas highlights Arinto, one of Portugal'a oldest and most historic grape varieties. In the village of Frexial, twenty kilometers north of Lisbon, the Franca family farms old-vine Arinto organically from rocky calcereous marls known as 'caeiras'. Fermented with native yeasts in stainless steel tank (80%) and third-pass 350L French oak, its elevage likewise continues until bottling, resulting in a wine of great vitality and sapidity, its notes of grilled white peach and beeswax marked by the vibrant minerality for which Bucelas is renowned. Its lively character makes it a refreshing complement to all manner of fish and seafood, chicken and pork. It can be enjoyed now through 2035.

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This singular red wine highlights Touriga Franca, which is widely planted in northern and central Portugal but rarely bottled on its own. On calcareous, west-facing slopes of the Arneiro vineyard, twenty kilometers north of the River Tagus as it opens as it opens out to the Atlantic, the Franca family tend two hectares of this underrated but increasingly important varietal organically. The wine is fermented with native yeasts in stainless steel tank (80%) and third-pass 350L French casks and its elevage likewise continues until bottling, resulting in a wine that is supple and charming, with notes of raspberry, blackcurrant and pomegranate; graphite, violet and clove. Delightful on its own, it is a versatile complement to a wide array of dishes and can be enjoyed thru 2031.

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1ères soifs (premières soifs) means ‘first thirsts’. This ‘vin de soif’ is 100% organic, made with grapes hand-harvested by the Bourrel family on their old-vine Carginan parcel, Les Flamands. Grown at altitude on the far western flank of the Agly Valley in Roussillon, the combination of warm days and cool nights give the wine its fresh, bright fruit and exuberant character, while its rocky schist soils lend depth and complexity.

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Aged for more than five years in used chestnut barrels, Saveiro ‘Castanea’ undergoes a unique elevage unlike any other Madeira produced on the island, harkening back hundreds of years to a time when use of chestnut was widespead in the maturation and transport of wine.

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