Luis Pato Bairrada Vinho Tinto 2024 Reasonable Cellar The apricots are harvested in

The apricots are harvested in July and the pits are immediately removed before a fermentation that lasts 8–10 days

already complex character

Each 375ml bottle yields six cocktails of bartender-quality cocktails without the mixing

The last group underwent a secondary maturation in toasted virgin American oak casks before being added to this intricate and seductive blend

Luis Pato Bairrada Vinho Tinto 2024 Reasonable Cellar The apricots are harvested inBaga 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.