João Tavares de Pina (JTP) Rufia Branco 2022
Encruzado, Cerceal, Bical, Malvasia Fina

A classic Dão white blend whose freshness belies its herbal and phenolic qualities.

Stainless ferment.

9 months on lees in stainless.

$25 L.U.C - 7.5% pouring

COZs Pop (Serra de Montejunto), 2022
Vital (slightly macerated)

100% Vital from all 6 of COZs’ vineyards on Montejunto.

Pure limestone.

Two-day pre-fermentation maceration before fermentation in 1000L vats. Aged for 11 months in used barrels. Malolactic conversion completed naturally.

$30 L.U.C - 7.5% pouring

COZs vp-Vital (Serra de Montejunto), 2022
Vital (slightly macerated)

100% Vital from the Vinha de Pena vineyard, planted in 1982. 350m altitude with a Northwest exposure. 

Altitude + exposure = cooler site = heaps of freshness.

Two-day pre-fermentation maceration before fermentation in 1000L vats. Aged for 11 months in used barrels. Malolactic conversion completed naturally.

$40 L.U.C

Humus Curtimenta (Lisboa), 2021
Touriga Nacional, Arinto, Fernão Pires

Blanc de Noir Touriga Nacional with skins of Arinto and Fernão Pires.

8 months in a mixture of Amphora and Old Chesnut.

Further 1 year in old barriques.

Intense gastronomic orange with crazy salty freshness and acidity.

$35 L.U.C

Dominó Foxtrot (Portalegre), 2023
Classic Palhete Field Blend of Red and Whites. 13 Varieties.

Dominó’s gateway drug to the world of Palhete. A super traditional field blend of 80-year-old vines of various Muscats, Reds and Whites.

Granite and clay soils.

Whole bunch macerated for five days, fermented in stainless, aged in old wood for 1 year.

$28 L.U.C - 7.5% pouring

Ashleigh Barrowman High Priestess (Marlborough, NZ), 2022
Pinot Noir

A banger of a wine showing evidence of Ash’s time spent in Jura with Labet and Les Bottes Rouge and in Burgundy with the sadly retired JJ Morel.

Hand-picked and hand-destemmed.

Daily juice syphoning to keep the cap wet without increasing extraction.

Robust green harvesting at the vineyard (60% of fruit dropped) so the density and concentration of fruit is there without having to extract heavily.

18 months in used puncheons.

$45 L.U.C

Tiago Teles Gilda (Barriada), 2022
Baga, Alfrocheiro, Trincadeira

Alfrocheiro, Baga and Trincadeira from vineyards located 15 miles inland of the coast of the Atlantic Ocean.

Co-fermented with skin contact in open lagar for 10 days.

Elevage sees the wine spend 10 months in old 300-litre barrels.

$30 L.U.C - 7.5% pouring

Quinta da Serradinha (Lisboa), 2017
Baga, Tinta Miúda, Castelão

The oldest vines planted by Antonio’s Grandfather in 1952.

First certified organic estate in Portugal (1977).

12 day open top ferment.

20 months in 600L very old barrels.

Further 3 years in bottle age before release.

A deep and velvety red with salinity and freshness.

$50 L.U.C

Barbeito, Verdelho Reserva Velha (10 Y.O) (Madeira), NV
Verdelho

100% Verdelho from top-quality vineyards in São Vicente and Prazeres.   

Aged for between 10-14 years in french oak using Canteiro method across Barbeito’s three warehouses.

Medium dryness tempered by electric acidity.

$60 L.U.C - 5% discount on cases of 6