White Wine

Granito Cru

Alvarinho 2022, 75cl

Vinhos Verdes

Granito Cru

Granito Cru wine, as its name suggests, seeks to bring out the best in the soil, the vineyard and the region. To achieve this, the winemaking process involves very little intervention, with no use of selected commercial yeasts or bacteria. Only sulphur is used, and in very low doses. The vinification process is inspired by the old methods of fermenting wines in old 500-litre wooden barrels or small casks, where they remained until bottling. The grapes come from the Melgaço region, in the parish of Paderne. The vineyards are small and over 25 years old, at altitudes of between 50 and 150 metres, facing north to west. They are traditionally pruned using the downward cordon and pergola method.

Vinification
The grapes were crushed and destemmed without the addition of sulphites or maceration. The wine was decanted at low temperature for 48 hours, then fermented and matured in 1,000 and 2,000 litre oval Slavic oak barrels. Fermentation with indigenous yeasts took place over 4 months and malolactic fermentation took place completely during the 12-month ageing period without the addition of sulphites. After 12 months of ageing, the wine spent 4 months in stainless steel vats before bottling. Sulphites were used at the time of bottling. Naturally stabilised wine. May create deposits.

Winemaker
Luís Seabra

Allergens information

Contains sulphites.

Luís Seabra

After many years working for others was time to follow my own path, in 2013 Luis Seabra Vinhos was born, the mission is to create wines that tell about the place where they are coming from, made with a minimal intervention philosophy, respecting their nature and character. We want our wines to be able to show the different soils where the vineyards are planted, the different altitudes and exposures, their differences, and similarities With the conscience that this are just the first steps of a long road, the adventure still is to discover the old and unknown vineyards that resist over the years. We want above all to create unique wines. Over these years I developed a special relationship with some of the old vines. Those ones are not lush and their trunks mostly are not thick and imposing. On the contrary – they are slender and twisted, have their own serenity coming from age. They respond more calmly than the other vineyards to various weather conditions, holding better the heat peaks and water stress and also resisting better the rain that insists on dropping before the harvest. Those vineyards have a singular character given by the site where they are planted and the varieties that make up the mixture. If we respect the grapes individuality in the winery the wines will be as the vineyards – discrete, not exuberant and with a depth and complexity coming from the long years of experience.