Luis Pato Bairrada Vinho Tinto 2024 PURYEARSALE and the only American vineyard

and the only American vineyard he actually owns

a 20-day maceration with gentle pumpovers

Because of this freshness

regenerative vineyards on alluvial and gravelly loam

and Merlot from the organically farmed vineyards of Yecla

Luis Pato Bairrada Vinho Tinto 2024 PURYEARSALE and the only American vineyardBaga has a reputation as one of Portugal's most difficult grapes: thick skinned, high in acid, tannic enough to strip paint. Luis Pato has spent his career arguing that this is a farming problem, not a grape problem, and Bairrada is now unimaginable without him. This is his most easygoing statement of the case, a roughly even split of Baga and Touriga Nacional, fermented and raised in stainless steel with a deliberately gentle hand on the extraction.