100% Vinhão, a red-fleshed teinturier varietal • Fermented in granite tanks before foot-treading and pressing • Malolactic in tank • Dark-fruited yet fresh, juicy and 11.5% alcohol!
Info
Producer:
Vintage:
2022
Country:
Portugal
Region:
Minho
Appellation:
Vinho Verde
Variety:
Vinhao
Color:
Red
Farming Practice:
Certified Biodynamic
Sizes Available
| Full Bottle | PT-APH-04-22 | 12/750ml |
Press & Reviews
Wine Advocate
Score
90
Date
2025-03-27
"Vinhão is the most common red grape in Vinho Verde, a colored pulp variety (known as Sousão in Douro) that produces wines like the 2022 Vinhão from Aphros, a rustic and earthy red not that far from a Garnacha Tintorera/Alicante Bouschet produced with contained ripeness to keep the alcohol at a moderate level and with a granite texture, making it close to a Beaujolais. They kept the tradition of stomping the clusters in a granite lagar and keeping it unoaked. 10,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in February 2024."
REVIEWS FROM PAST VINTAGES
2021
Decanter
Score
93
Date
2023-08-09
"This vivacious Vinhão from Vasco Croft™s pioneering biodynamic estate captures the variety™s wild fruit profile and tempers (but without taming) its high tannin and acid profile. Wonderfully pure sour wild cherry, bilberry and sloe fruit and notes of cherrystone and inky violets. Refined, touch sooty tannins and pingy, fresh acidity make for a long, lively finish. Macerated and foot-trodden in lagares, then fermented and lees-aged in stainless steel vats."