Folias de Baco "Uivo" Pet Nat Curtido, Douro, Portugal 2022

FROM OZ WINE COMPANY:

THE WINE: 100% Moscatel Galego. The vineyards are located in the sub-region of Cima-Corgo (Alijó) at an average altitude of 600 meters, growing in schist and granite soils. Hand-harvest took place at the beginning of September, then followed by a two-week maceration. Indigenous yeast fermentation in stainless steel tanks, with no added yeast or sugar. Unfined, unfiltered.

THE PRODUCER: Folias de Baco is owned and operated by Tiago Sampaio, who grew up in the Douro Valley, Portugal. Tiago learned to love farming from his grandfather who farmed family vineyards in the Douro’s Alto Douro in the Cima Corgo sub-zone. After studying agriculture academically for many years in Portugal, he travelled to Oregon and obtained his PhD in Oenology and Viticulture, before returning home to start Folias de Baco in 2007.

Tiago farms his family vines that are situated on steep slopes of schist and granite at an altitude between 500-700m. He works with 25 indigenous red and white varietals, some planted over 80 years ago. All practices in the vineyards are non-certified organic, and in the cellar Tiago uses a very light hand, with many whole-cluster fermentations in Lagares, and minimal to no use of SO2 in the finished wines.