2009 Luis Pato "Quinta do Moinho" Bairrada

The 2009 Tinto Quinta do Moinho is the current year in the market, from one of the vineyards that is sold later (this one and Barrio). It's a pure Baga from a clonal selection planted on clay and limestone soils. It has a developed nose with notes of forest floor, brick dust and a mixture of berries and herbs with a balsamic twist. It's juicy and ripe, from a warmish year they compare with 2020, a more approachable and immediate year, despite which, the wine has an important load of tannins, slightly dusty and with rusticity. It started with some black olive notes that made me think of a Syrah and later dissipated with time in the glass. It fermented destemmed in a plastic bin with indigenous yeasts and matured in 650-liter French oak barrels for two years. (LG)