Wine Aphros, "Phaunus" Palhete, 2022
Tasting Notes
The wine is pale yellow citrus.
The taste of wine is attacking, voluminous, with bright acidity and a long, persistent aftertaste.
The aroma of wine is dominated by tones of fruits and flowers, including shades of essential oil from lime zest and orange.
The wine goes well with grilled or baked fish, cod with cream, shellfish, sushi, salads and fruits.
Interesting Facts
"Aphros" Loureiro - bright, fresh, aromatic white biodynamic wine made from Portuguese autochthonous grape variety Loureiro. Vines are grown in Lima, in the Vigno Verde sub-region. The vineyard with an area of more than 20 hectares has a southern exposure. Harvested by hand in the second half of September. After maceration with grape skin, the must is pressed. The resulting juice is decanted, fermented at a temperature of 12 to 18 ºC, aged in steel tanks for 2 months, filtered and bottled.
Producer's description
The architect Vasco Croft, born in Lisbon, studied pedagogy and sculpture in England, where he also found an interest in woodworking and furniture design. Returning to Portugal, he led the Waldorf movement for many years with his own furniture design company. At thirty, Vasco met with a Buddhist monk who gave him a bottle of wine and talked for a long time about the deep spiritual meaning of wine and its effect on humans. This event, perceived by Vasco as a personal meeting with Dionysus, prompted him to start the Aphros Wine wine project in Casal do Paso in 2003, in an old half-forgotten house owned by his family since the 17th century. Once upon a time a variety of crops and grapes were grown here on a farm. But in 2004, Vasco found the farm abandoned and practically uninhabited - there were only three people left, two of whom were over 80 years old.
Vasco did a great job restoring the house and the vineyards, which since 2006 he began to process exclusively on the principles of biodynamics, as well as constructing a new building of the Aphros Wine winery. Today the farm is a holistic ecosystem, on the territory of which you can see eucalyptus trees, acacia, oaks, meet wild boars, foxes and eagles. Biodiversity is actively maintained, and all species of animals and plants are carefully protected.
