2021 Luis Seabra “Granito Cru” Branco, Dão, PortugalABOUT THE WINE: 60% Encruzado, 30% Bical, 10% Cercial. Sustainably grown vines planted around 1987 tended in granitic soils with quartz. This is a vegan wine. The grapes are harvested by hand, crushed and destemmed, then pressed and decanted into used 500L French oak barrels. The grapes are spontaneously co fermented with indigenous yeast. The wine remains in barrel on its lees with no batonnage for 1 year, after which it is racked into stainless

It’s a very fresh terroir with open exposure and breezy conditions

10% Rousanne from a 0

5 different varieties of Chenin were planted together so as to best express the intensity and singularity of this special place

now retired

That family has since grown to include members of the local community

The vines are 15 years old and all vinification is done in stainless steel

CALIFORNIA - $32

and Purple Angel

was in 2006

Major investments were made to bring out the best in the vineyards

One of their secrets lies in the use of an ancestral technique: the "Biodynamic Agriculture"

and Anselme was the man to provide it