New Portugese Red!

Quinta do Mouro
Douro, Portugal

Portugal Boutique Winery was founded with a similar mission to our own: to highlight all of the great wines of Portugal and tell the story with great old vineyards.

I asked Ricardo if the old faces on his bottles were both metaphor and tribute for the older vineyards and the invariably older farmers who are struggling to tend to them. He sort of laughed and said no, but that it was a good thought. Instead he said, older faces just make for beautiful drawings, with so much texture and detail to highlight. In a way though, this is just another layer of metaphor hinting towards the same idea. That age brings depth, and when rendered by a talented hand can create beautiful tapestries of history, place, and flavor. We are very excited to be bringing in wines from PBW that mirror our own excitement about lesser appreciated wines and regions.

Nuno Aguiar (winemaker, former collaborator of Anselmo Mendes) and António Olazabal Ferreira (marine biologist in accelerated conversion to winemaker) have launched a wine called Boina, the first one is from 2015 and has a very appealing aesthetic. A series of wines that the duo began to produce in the Douro and in Trás-os-Montes, under the Portugal Boutique Winery project. The brand Boina groups the wines without wood of the Douro.

2019
Portugal Boutique Winery
'Boina' Red
Touriga Franca, Tinta Amarela, Tinta Carvalha, Tinta Francisca, Sousao

You would expect an aromatically exuberant wine, even for your youth, but in the nose it is not very effusive. In the mouth it also shows fruity containment. But it is a very gastronomic wine, without unpleasant bitter and greens and with a very fresh bottom.