https://www.gkselections.com/home daily 1.0 2025-12-05 https://www.gkselections.com/luis-pato-story daily 0.75 2021-11-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/617ebfb166d5855869d2941f/1635799751277-N5U117MDNSXT984TT4DY/3+Collage.jpg Luis Pato - Story The Pato family has been making wine in Bairrada, at their home estate Quinta da Ribeirinho, since at least the 18th century. In 1970 when Bairrada received DOC status, Luis’ father João Pato was the first producer in the region to make wine under the new regional designation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/617ebfb166d5855869d2941f/1635800107311-S46J40XVZSD5N2CLQSV0/DSC_0962.JPG Luis Pato - Story In the early 1980s Luis bottled his first 100% Baga wine, taking a grape that had a reputation for unyielding green tannins and taming them by introducing green harvesting in the vineyards and smaller format barrels into the cellar. Since then, Luis has been a focal point around which an entire culture of winemaking has grown. The region is now producing dozens of incredible Baga wines, and under Luis’ leadership these wines are gaining an international reputation for outstanding quality. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/617ebfb166d5855869d2941f/1635800360871-8AM7DDJT9LTYB5TV62SV/DSC_0953.JPG Luis Pato - Story Luis has never stopped innovating and pushing the boundaries of great wine in Bairrada. Luis innovated a three wave “precision viticulture” approach to harvesting and winemaking that has become very popular around the region. Grapes are harvested 3 times from vineyards: the first a traditional green harvesting just after fruit set, the second time at the end of August to produce sparkling wine, and finally a third time (typically around the beginning of October) for the still wines. This three tiered approach allows the winemakers of Bairrada to help the Baga vines achieve sufficient ripeness while not dropping too much fruit to the ground, instead turning what would otherwise be a waste product into some truly excellent sparkling wines, historically a very important product in Bairrada. https://www.gkselections.com/luis-pato-wines daily 0.75 2021-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/617ebfb166d5855869d2941f/7656dd08-b339-4a80-b586-278630a42592/DSC_0962.JPG Luis Pato - Wines - Philosophy Luis Pato embodies the ethos of the great European vigneron, maintaining, with exacting precision, a simple winemaking process which transparently shines the terroir and history of his region. But he has another face as well: endlessly creative, iterative, and imaginative. Just as the classic wines of Bairrada will always reach dazzling heights in this cellar, there will also always be new ideas, new creations, and new experiences bubbling away. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/617ebfb166d5855869d2941f/e3ee3f67-8c8c-46fe-969a-a76cdaa23030/B_RCP4136.JPG Luis Pato - Wines - Baga Luis Pato’s Baga character starts in the vineyard. Each Baga vine is harvested three times. First a traditional green harvest right after fruit set, then a second harvest in August to make sparkling wines. Finally, a third harvest is made, typically at the beginning of October, harvesting Baga at perfect ripeness to make red wines. In the winery, the Baga is totally destemmed before fermenting in open vats. The wine is then aged in a combination of used and new French and Portuguese oak barrels for two years. 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Most vineyards are tiny plots that sit between 500-700 meters of elevation. The high elevations and mountainous slopes have largely protected the region from the industrial scales and methods that define most of Alentejo. Instead, Portalegre is a place that has long existed on the margins of the Portuguese wine industry, where for nearly its entire history, there hasn’t been much wine “industry” at all. Instead, Portalegre’s viticulture exists mostly on a personal scale, in which vines were planted in family gardens along with any number of other fruit, nut, and olive trees. Within these gardens, which often abutt old family homes or taverns, are collections of many of Portugal's oldest vines, many planted before phylloxera, gnarled and hunched low to the ground. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/617ebfb166d5855869d2941f/33c697ee-2b66-462e-a1c2-daef7950c6e1/_23B2802.jpg Producers - Cabeças do Reguengo https://www.gkselections.com/producers/luis-pato monthly 0.5 2021-10-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/617ebfb166d5855869d2941f/37039bdd-cf7b-41e5-90a0-6ad3931544c5/B_RCP4867.JPG Producers - Luis Pato The Story https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/617ebfb166d5855869d2941f/819e54ff-6f98-43aa-b536-7fa2ebfac883/VLP-26.jpg Producers - Luis Pato The Vineyards https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/617ebfb166d5855869d2941f/6b98b63c-cced-475f-ad0e-d3edc41c44c9/B_RCP4410.JPG Producers - Luis Pato The Wines https://www.gkselections.com/producers/hugo-mendes monthly 0.5 2021-10-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/617ebfb166d5855869d2941f/a99e33e7-ab02-4336-aff7-e4cca1afb7c3/AdeggaFest18-3782-HugoMendes.jpg Producers - Hugo Mendes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/617ebfb166d5855869d2941f/37774726-60c8-4220-9c5e-6a1681842773/AdeggaFest19-197-HugoMendes.jpg Producers - Hugo Mendes - He got a good deal on some friend’s grapes, made the wine in a friend’s winery, and pre-sold as much wine as he could over social media just so he could afford to bottle it. Since that first vintage, however, Hugo has skyrocketed to the heights of Portuguese wine culture. He has become well known for his efforts to help build up a new, younger, more dynamic Portuguese wine community and the endless creativity of his wine making. In many ways, however, Hugo is also very traditional, working almost entirely with the indigenous grapes of the region (something that is particularly rare in Lisboa), and working to preserve the region’s natural freshness in his wines, as opposed to trying to pump up the alcohol or smother their natural flavors in fancy cooperage. https://www.gkselections.com/producers/baias-e-enseadas monthly 0.5 2022-06-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/617ebfb166d5855869d2941f/c647a26a-d53a-407d-86c4-87fe64fa0feb/DSCF6762.jpg Producers - Baías e Enseadas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/617ebfb166d5855869d2941f/1f4f3438-af42-467f-b597-80e552da9fca/DSCF6747%28Straightened%29+%281%29.jpg Producers - Baías e Enseadas Daniel faced these same issues when he sought out to start his own project, but he has joined a small group of resourceful winegrowers who are showing a new face of the region, combining the traditional grapes of Colares and those of broader Lisboa to limestone vineyards within Colares’s extreme maritime climate. While these are not the traditional wines of Colares (Daniel’s wines are labeled Lisboa VR, as Colares DOC requires that the vines be planted on their own root stock in sand), they are unmistakably of the region with their ocean perfume and sea-salt minerality. The clay and limestone soils do provide a notably Burgundian accent, however: that familiar balance of mouth coating texture and weightless acidity. Today, for the first time in living memory, the conversation around Colares is one of new plantings and exciting new wines. Baias e Enseadas is at the forefront of this conversation, and we couldn't be more excited to have it with you and your customers. https://www.gkselections.com/producers/casa-do-joa monthly 0.5 2022-08-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/617ebfb166d5855869d2941f/f9367a9c-91dd-4f6b-95a4-01c675773413/Cepa+antiga+III.jpeg Producers - Casa do Joa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/617ebfb166d5855869d2941f/9195f285-80a8-4265-8efb-30988f8c3ec1/Vindima+19.png Producers - Casa do Joa In the winery, the name of the game is gentle macerations that extend through fermentation and long barrel aging for both the red and white wines. There are minimal sulfur additions, instead the wines rely on their phenolic quality and oxidative elevage to provide stability. Stylistically all the wines at Joa are defined by high aromatic intensity, and an ethereal texture that nevertheless delivers show stopping impact. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/617ebfb166d5855869d2941f/10b5cb3e-af58-4861-8aa7-2fb89edce66c/Branco+2019-10-01+at+10.31.56.jpeg Producers - Casa do Joa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/617ebfb166d5855869d2941f/39ce7f9a-cd39-40be-95c1-831b78536182/_DSC0155.jpg Producers - Casa do Joa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/617ebfb166d5855869d2941f/1e2a2748-234c-4d80-94ac-506a71412885/_DSC9969.jpg Producers - Casa do Joa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/617ebfb166d5855869d2941f/65b2eb74-463a-4609-a035-456aa2bc3d97/VIndima+2019-10-02+at+09.56.36.jpeg Producers - Casa do Joa https://www.gkselections.com/producers/insula monthly 0.5 2022-09-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/617ebfb166d5855869d2941f/298c65f9-765c-4e70-b5f1-a43c74fa6521/Vinha+CV.jpg Producers - Insula Vinus https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/617ebfb166d5855869d2941f/be904505-6e1f-446d-a963-be28fc069c24/Foto1-2.jpg Producers - Insula Vinus At the same time, AWC’s partnerships with local growers increased to the point that Paulo no longer had to contribute all of the fruit from his personal vines to AWC’s production. Instead Paulo was able to start reserving some of his own fruit for his personal project, Insula Vinus. He took everything he had learned while at AWC, as well as his incredible fruit, and in our opinion is now making the very best wines on the island. Many of Paulo’s vineyards are uniquely situated on the southern exposition of Mt. Pico, where fog and clouds are trapped by the mountain, shading the vines and enabling Paulo to retain more acidity than other producers–even in a warming climate. https://www.gkselections.com/producers/raposo monthly 0.5 2022-08-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/617ebfb166d5855869d2941f/3a5fb803-c7ed-4acb-9b41-aa3781e9ec8a/DSC_0215.jpg Producers - Carlos Raposo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/617ebfb166d5855869d2941f/a6501fec-5b7a-41a1-b09d-31d182031719/DSC_0201.jpg Producers - Carlos Raposo But, just like his predecessor, it came time for Carlos to start his own project, and it became immediately clear that he had the ambition and skill to reach even higher heights when he was allowed to fully realize his own vision and creativity. In 2020 Carlos founded World Wild Wines, a name representative of both his global perspective and his mission to put his home, the Dão, on the map as one of the world’s great wine regions. 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