2023
100% Moreto. Moreto is a grape variety from the old Alentejo vineyards, sister to Castelão and the daughter of a cross between the Sarigo and Alfrocheiro Preto grape varieties.
One of the few 100% wines from this grape variety in Portugal. A wine that takes us back to our origins, to a lost Alentejo. Freshness and power.
Planting year: 1970. Altitude: 256-267 m. Soils: Granit with a strong presence of active limestone. pH slightly basic. History: Located at the southern foot of Serra d'Ossa, this place is special, you can feel it! Two streams bring the rainwater from the Serra keeping the ground cool in the torrid Alentejo heat, never lowering the water table below 5 meters.
It was here that the vineyards were formerly planted, and the place was known as the Chão dos Eremitas (Hermit's Ground), "Chão" being the old term for a flat area, and "Eremitas" referring to the Hermit monks of the Order of St. Paul. Here there is evidence of uninterrupted wine production since the 14th century, the vineyard was so important that a Papal Bull in 1397 exempts the "Pauperes Hermitas" from paying tributes (taxes) on their vineyards.
But archeology goes further, as the discovery of the only Phoenician wine amphora in the interior of the country, dating from the 8th century BC, links this place to wine about 900 years before the arrival of the Romans, in what amounts to 3,000 years of wine-related history.
Night manual harvest. The grapes are selected in a sorting table, 100% destemmed, fall through gravity on the vat. Spon- taneous fermentation, maceration for 35 days in skins, and ageing for 16 months in old barrels.
Intense ruby color, medium concentration, almost ripe black fruit, with hints of woods, full attack, concentrated with good freshness and persistent structure at the end of the tasting.
Meat dishes, from a grilled entrecôte to a casserole dish.
Keep at 14ºC to be served at 16ºC and drink at 18ºC.
14% Vol.
1 900 numbered bottles, released in September 2025.
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