Winemaking: Traditional Douro “Palhete” or “Clarete”; somewhere between a rosé and a light red. Made entirely from 80-year-old vines planted on 2 hectares of schist and granite. Natural and unfiltered.

Tasting notes: It is very pure, with delicate, juicy red fruit; raspberry and sour cherry with a hint of fresh pepper. On the palate, it is refreshing and crisp, with a strong mineral character, almost salty and saline.

Pet Nat is an abbreviation – the full term is “Pétillant Naturel”, which is French and means “natural sparkling wine”. Pet Nat just sounds cooler!

Serve chilled, ideally between 8–10°C.

An elegant wine to enjoy on warm summer days. On its own or as an accompaniment to delicate dishes.

Winemaking: Tiago Sampaios’s pétillant naturel is a natural sparkling wine made using the ancient method (Ancestrale), as it was before the discovery of bottle fermentation in Champagne. The wine is bottled during fermentation without the addition of yeast or sugar.

Grape varieties: This field blend contains over 25 indigenous Portuguese varieties in almost equal proportions of red and white grapes. This ancient tradition is now mostly preserved only in Portugal and is known as a “field blend”.

A field blend is the remnant of an old winemaking tradition: in the past, vineyards were not planted with single varieties, but with a variety of white and red grapes. When the time came, everything was harvested and fermented together.

Uivo Renegado is a field blend made from more than 25 different indigenous grape varieties – 50% red and 50% white. The red varieties include Touriga Nacional, Tinta Roriz, Sousão, Bastardo, Tinta Barocca, Tinta Francisca and Tinto Cão, while the white varieties include Rabigato, Malvasia Fina, Alvarinho, Gouveio, Verdelho, Esgana Cão and Viosinho.
The vineyards are over 80 years old and no longer yield much, but what they do produce is of exceptional quality.