Red Wine Filipa Pato Nossa Calcário Magnum 2017, 1,5l Bairrada
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Red Wine
Filipa Pato
Nossa Calcário Magnum 2017, 1,5l
Bairrada

71,64€
approx. £59.45

Baga

  Red: Elegant

 12.5%

 2020-2045

 Serve at 16º-18º

4.2 /5
453 ratings

 

Mark Squires, tasting note published in July 18th 2019

Smooth and understated on opening, this is a wine that needs some time in the glass to show what it has. It's easy to take a quick sip and wonder where everything is. This is often subtle, but eventually so persistent that its virtues are noticed all the time. Come back in an hour. The wine expanded in the glass and developed more power while releasing incredible fruits over the palate. It's relatively sexy for a Baga, and it was better the next day, unfolding and seeming even richer. The Baga here never seems terribly rustic, as it can often be. The texture is pure velvet. The key to this, however, particularly in this vintage, is the stunning fruit. It has only 12.8% alcohol, but the fruit seems to be the essence of the grape, unusually rich and full of flavor. If (like many of us, whom I refer to) you often think of Baga as earthy, astringent, and acidic rather than fruity, this wine doesn't feed those stereotypes. That said, there's the typical earth and power lurking underneath even as the finish is long and full of flavor. If you give it time, it will acquire more complexity and another dimension. At the moment, I'd still give the nod to the wonderful 2015, but this one also has hidden potential. This needs a little more time to acquire better balance and complexity, even if it sometimes seems approachable now. For best results, come back around 2025-2027.

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Filipa Pato

The grapes are handpicked, from vineyards over 80 years old. Alcoholic fermentation takes place in used French oak tanks. Aging: 18 months in French oak casks, with 20% new and 80% second use.

A great wine for gastronomy! Simply cooked high-quality meats (lamb, beef, veal, pigeon, duck, pheasant, partridge, hare, fillet of deer). We imagine also sweetbread, veal kidney, and even calves’ liver (Venetian way with glazed onions). Strong cheeses will also be a good match (Ami de Chambertin, buttery Niza, buttery Castelo Branco, Serpa).

94+/100 Mark Squires – Robert Parker – Wine Advocate

Allergens information

Contains sulphites.

SKU: 105690

Filipa Pato & William Wouters

Filipa Pato and William Wouters is a magical wife and husband collaboration. The philosophy is simple: create authentic wines without make-up, they express the true nature of the vineyards from which they come. We focus on indigenous grapes only. Baga, Bical, Arinto, Cercial and Maria Gomes create soulful wines from vineyard sites with soils, microclimats and aspect ideal for growing our exquisite wine grapes with biodymanic viticultural practices. In the winery we gently handle the grapes, minimal intervention and strict monitoring of the wine allow our grapes to express themselves fully. Ultimately we create “terroir” wines by uniting knowledge, art and nature to produce “withoutmake-up”, each wine with its own character. Filipa Pato – winegrower in Bairrada. A graduate of the University of Coimbra as a Chemical engineer refined her Winemaker skills doing harvests in Bordeaux, France – Mendoza, Argentina and Margaret River, Australia and with her father Luis Pato, the Baga rebel. William Wouters – chef/sommelier/restaurateur. William comes from a restaurateur family from Antwerp, Belgium. He is a sommelier champion, restaurateur and former head chef of the Belgian national Soccer team on the World cup in Brazil and the European cup in France. Together Filipa & William share all their experiences: the love for food and wine, encounters with great wine growers, sommeliers and wine lovers from all over the world and the magical, inexhaustible culture of the World of wine. Today for Filipa & William, Ois do Bairro is the center of their wine universe. They will be happy to share all their passion of food and wine. Drink local, eat local and … think global.

Address

F. Pato – Vinhos Unip., Lda. Rua de Sto. André, 41; 3780-502 Óis do Bairro – Anadia Portugal