Luis Pato Maria Gomes Vinho Spumante

A blend of 85% Maria Gomes and 15% Baga from the Bairrada region. Soils here are mainly snady with chalky clay. The grapes are picked between the middle to the end of August to ensure acidity is at a maximun. They are then fermented separately in stainless steel for 15 days before secondary fermentation in the bottle. They wine ages for 5 months in the bottle before being released. 

A really delicious wine which should replace cheap Prosecco the world over. Lovely sweet-floral fruits on the nose, and a touch of toasty / biscuit character. Dry on the palate, but not too Brut, tasting of apples and fresh lemons. 

Luís Pato has been making wine here since 1980, ten years after his father became the first producer to estate bottle wines after the Bairrada DOC was granted.

These days, and more than 30 vintages later, Luis has 60 hectares of vines, majoring on Baga for red wines, and Bical and Maria Gomes for whites. A considerable proportion of production is also in sparkling wine, both metodo classico and metodo antigo (Bairrada has been, since the 1890s, the cradle of sparkling wine production in Portugal).

Winemaking has moved from the grounds of the family house in Ois do Bairro, to a smart winery in Amoreira de Gandara, and, of course, these days Luis Pato is not only the most famous producer in his region, but enjoys a global reputation too. 

NV

12.5%

75cl