Luis Pato Bairrada Vinho Tinto 2024 PURYEARSALE Filipa Pato grew up in

Filipa Pato grew up in the middle of it and has built her own reputation there

red fruit character and weight

regenerative vineyards on alluvial and gravelly loam

chalky limestone soils from Ay lend to a bright

with hints of tropical fruit

Luis Pato Bairrada Vinho Tinto 2024 PURYEARSALE Filipa Pato grew up 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.